U+1C91 "Ბ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ban Unicode Character

U+1C91 "Ბ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ban is the uppercase form of the Georgian letter "ban", which represents the sound [b] and corresponds to the second letter of the Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli scripts. It belongs to the Unicode block "Georgian Extended," specifically designed for the Mtavruli script, a monumental or uppercase variant used primarily for titles, headings, and inscriptions in modern Georgian writing. This character supports the official Georgian alphabet, distinguishing it from the standard lowercase Mkhedruli forms, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper representation and text processing for languages that utilize the Georgian script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1C91
Version Added	11.0
Name	Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ban
Block	Georgian Extended
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ბ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ბ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB2 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1C91
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001C91
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1c91

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	"ბ" U+10D1 Georgian Letter Ban
Lowercase Code Point	"ბ" U+10D1 Georgian Letter Ban
Simple Case Folding	"ბ" U+10D1 Georgian Letter Ban
Case Folding	"ბ" U+10D1 Georgian Letter Ban
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ბ" U+10D1 Georgian Letter Ban
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ბ" U+10D1 Georgian Letter Ban
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