U+1C9A "Ლ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Las Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1C9A "Ლ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Las is the uppercase form of the Georgian letter "Lasi," which is used in the modern Georgian Mkhedruli script and represents the sound /l/. Part of the Mtavruli case, which typically appears in all-caps headings or titles, this character was added to the Unicode standard in version 11.0 (2018) to provide a distinct capital letter for Georgian text that aligns with the uppercase distinction found in other alphabets, such as Latin or Cyrillic. Before this addition, capital letters in Georgian were often represented using the same glyphs as lowercase or were styled with different font sizes, making U+1C9A a significant step for proper typographic casing in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C9A |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Las |
| Block | Georgian Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ლ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ლ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c9a |
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 | "ლ" U+10DA Georgian Letter Las |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ლ" U+10DA Georgian Letter Las |
| Simple Case Folding | "ლ" U+10DA Georgian Letter Las |
| Case Folding | "ლ" U+10DA Georgian Letter Las |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ლ" U+10DA Georgian Letter Las |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ლ" U+10DA Georgian Letter Las |
| 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 |