U+1CA6 "Ღ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ghan Unicode Character

U+1CA6 "Ღ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ghan is a typographic uppercase form of the Georgian letter "ღ" (ghan), used in the Mtavruli script style which is an all-capitals variant employed for titles, headings, and inscriptions in the modern Georgian language. This character is distinct from the standard uppercase Mkhedruli script, as Mtavruli was formally encoded in Unicode 11.0 to provide a true capitalization system for Georgian, where traditional script lacked distinct cases. It represents the voiced velar fricative sound /ɣ/ and is historically derived from the Asomtavruli script, preserving the circular, ornate shape characteristic of Mtavruli lettering.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CA6
Version Added	11.0
Name	Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ghan
Block	Georgian Extended
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ღ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ღ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB2 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1CA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001CA6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1ca6

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	"ღ" U+10E6 Georgian Letter Ghan
Lowercase Code Point	"ღ" U+10E6 Georgian Letter Ghan
Simple Case Folding	"ღ" U+10E6 Georgian Letter Ghan
Case Folding	"ღ" U+10E6 Georgian Letter Ghan
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ღ" U+10E6 Georgian Letter Ghan
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ღ" U+10E6 Georgian Letter Ghan
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