U+1CA4 "Ფ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Phar Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1CA4 "Ფ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Phar is a typographic uppercase form of the Georgian Mkhedruli script letter "ფ" (phar), used primarily for decorative or editorial emphasis in modern Georgian text rather than in traditional writing. It represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive sound /pʰ/, similar to the English "p" as in "pat" when followed by a strong puff of air. Introduced in Unicode version 11.0 as part of the Georgian Extended block, this character is distinct from the standard Mkhedruli lowercase and is employed in contexts such as titles, signage, or calligraphy where a more formal or capitalized appearance is desired, though Georgian does not use capitalization in the same way as Latin scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1CA4
Version Added 11.0
Name Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Phar
Block Georgian Extended
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ფ
HTML Hex Encoding Ფ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB2 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1CA4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001CA4
C/C++/Java Escape \u1ca4

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 "ფ" U+10E4 Georgian Letter Phar
Lowercase Code Point "ფ" U+10E4 Georgian Letter Phar
Simple Case Folding "ფ" U+10E4 Georgian Letter Phar
Case Folding "ფ" U+10E4 Georgian Letter Phar
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ფ" U+10E4 Georgian Letter Phar
NFKC Simple Casefold "ფ" U+10E4 Georgian Letter Phar
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