U+10EE "ხ" Georgian Letter Xan Unicode Character

U+10EE "ხ" Georgian Letter Xan is the thirty-third letter of the modern Georgian alphabet, representing a voiceless velar fricative sound similar to the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch" or the "j" in Spanish. It is used in the Georgian language to write words like "ხახვი" (khakhvi) meaning "onion," and appears in both the Mkhedruli script, which is the standard Georgian writing system, and historical scripts like Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri. This character is part of the Georgian block in Unicode and holds cultural significance as a fundamental component of Georgian orthography and literature, reflecting the distinct phonetic inventory of the Kartvelian language family.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10EE
Version Added	1.1
Name	Georgian Letter Xan
Unicode 1.0 Name	Georgian Small Letter Xan
Block	Georgian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ხ
HTML Hex Encoding	ხ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x83 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x10EE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000010EE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u10ee

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	"Ხ" U+1CAE Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Xan
Uppercase Code Point	"Ხ" U+1CAE Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Xan
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