U+10F2 "ჲ" Georgian Letter Hie Unicode Character

U+10F2 "ჲ" Georgian Letter Hie is a letter from the Georgian script, historically known as "hie" and used in the Khutsuri or ecclesiastical orthography of the Old Georgian language, where it represented a palatal glide sound similar to the English "y" in "yes." In the modern Mkhedruli alphabet, this character is obsolete for standard Georgian, though it remains in use for the Svan and Mingrelian languages as part of the extended Georgian alphabet, typically denoting a semivowel or palatal approximant. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves an important aspect of Georgia's linguistic heritage, allowing for the accurate digital representation of historical and minority language texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10F2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Georgian Letter Hie
Unicode 1.0 Name	Georgian Small Letter Hie
Block	Georgian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ჲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ჲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x83 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x10F2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000010F2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u10f2

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	"Ჲ" U+1CB2 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Hie
Uppercase Code Point	"Ჲ" U+1CB2 Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Hie
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