U+10E8 "შ" Georgian Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
შ
U+10E8 "შ" Georgian Letter Shin is the 23rd letter of the modern Georgian alphabet, used primarily to write the Georgian language. It represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound /ʃ/, similar to the English "sh" in "ship". As part of the Georgian script, which has a rich history dating back to the 5th century, this character is integral to the Mkhedruli script, the standard writing system for modern Georgian.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Georgian Letter Shin |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Georgian Small Letter Shin |
| Block | Georgian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | შ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | შ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x83 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x10E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000010E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u10e8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Შ" U+1CA8 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Shin |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Შ" U+1CA8 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Shin |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Georgian |
| Script Extensions | Georgian |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |