U+1C90 "Ა" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter An Unicode Character

U+1C90 "Ა" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter An is a capital letter in the modern Georgian Mtavruli script, used as the uppercase form of the letter "ა" (An), the first letter of the Georgian alphabet. It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 11.0 in 2018 to support the Mtavruli style, which is traditionally employed for titles, headings, and decorative text in Georgian writing. This character represents the open front unrounded vowel sound /ɑ/ or /a/ and is distinct from the earlier Mkhedruli script, where capital letters were historically absent, making Mtavruli a significant typographic innovation for the Georgian language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1C90
Version Added	11.0
Name	Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter An
Block	Georgian Extended
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ა
HTML Hex Encoding	Ა
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB2 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1C90
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001C90
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1c90

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
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ა" U+10D0 Georgian Letter An
Lowercase Code Point	"ა" U+10D0 Georgian Letter An
Simple Case Folding	"ა" U+10D0 Georgian Letter An
Case Folding	"ა" U+10D0 Georgian Letter An
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ა" U+10D0 Georgian Letter An
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ა" U+10D0 Georgian Letter An
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