U+10FA "ჺ" Georgian Letter Ain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ჺ
U+10FA "ჺ" Georgian Letter Ain is a rare and historic letter used in the Georgian script, specifically representing a glottal sound found in the Bats and Laz languages within the Kartvelian language family. It is part of the standard Georgian block but is not used in modern Georgian itself, serving instead as a specialized character for linguists and speakers of minority languages to accurately transcribe a specific phoneme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10FA |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Georgian Letter Ain |
| Block | Georgian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ჺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ჺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x83 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x10FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000010FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u10fa |
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 | "Ჺ" U+1CBA Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ain |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ჺ" U+1CBA Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ain |
| 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 |