U+1C96 "Ზ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Zen Unicode Character

U+1C96 "Ზ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Zen is the uppercase form of the Georgian letter "ზ" (zen), which is the seventh letter of the modern Georgian alphabet, pronounced as the voiced alveolar fricative /z/. It belongs to the Mtavruli script, a monumental or uppercase style of the Georgian alphabet introduced in Unicode 11.0 in 2018 to provide a capitalized casing pair for the traditionally unicameral Georgian script. This character is used primarily in titles, headings, and formal inscriptions, and it corresponds to the lowercase mkhedruli form "ზ" while maintaining the distinct angular and ornamental design characteristic of the Mtavruli style.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1C96
Version Added	11.0
Name	Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Zen
Block	Georgian Extended
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ზ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ზ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB2 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1C96
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001C96
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1c96

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	"ზ" U+10D6 Georgian Letter Zen
Lowercase Code Point	"ზ" U+10D6 Georgian Letter Zen
Simple Case Folding	"ზ" U+10D6 Georgian Letter Zen
Case Folding	"ზ" U+10D6 Georgian Letter Zen
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ზ" U+10D6 Georgian Letter Zen
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ზ" U+10D6 Georgian Letter Zen
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