U+1C97 "Თ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Tan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1C97 "Თ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Tan is the uppercase monumental form of the letter "tan", the ninth letter of the Georgian alphabet, used primarily in the Georgian script’s historical Mtavruli style for headings, inscriptions, and decorative text. It corresponds to the lowercase Mkhedruli letter "თ" and represents the voiceless alveolar plosive sound /t/. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 11.0, released in 2018, as part of the Georgian Extended block to support the complete set of Mtavruli capital letters, which are distinct from the modern Georgian uppercase forms used in contemporary typography. Its usage preserves the traditional calligraphic and epigraphic heritage of the Georgian language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C97 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Tan |
| Block | Georgian Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Თ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Თ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB2 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c97 |
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 | "თ" U+10D7 Georgian Letter Tan |
| Lowercase Code Point | "თ" U+10D7 Georgian Letter Tan |
| Simple Case Folding | "თ" U+10D7 Georgian Letter Tan |
| Case Folding | "თ" U+10D7 Georgian Letter Tan |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "თ" U+10D7 Georgian Letter Tan |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "თ" U+10D7 Georgian Letter Tan |
| 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 |