U+1CA9 "Ჩ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Chin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ჩ
U+1CA9 "Ჩ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Chin is part of the Georgian script block and represents the uppercase form of the letter "Chin" in the Mtavruli case, a historical Armenian-influenced majuscule style used for decorative or ceremonial text. This character corresponds to the modern Georgian letter "ჩ" and is employed primarily in formal inscriptions or calligraphic contexts, with its lowercase counterpart encoded separately. It is not commonly used in everyday writing but serves to preserve traditional Georgian typographic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CA9 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Chin |
| Block | Georgian Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ჩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ჩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ca9 |
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 | "ჩ" U+10E9 Georgian Letter Chin |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ჩ" U+10E9 Georgian Letter Chin |
| Simple Case Folding | "ჩ" U+10E9 Georgian Letter Chin |
| Case Folding | "ჩ" U+10E9 Georgian Letter Chin |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ჩ" U+10E9 Georgian Letter Chin |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ჩ" U+10E9 Georgian Letter Chin |
| 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 |