U+1CAB "Ძ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Jil Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1CAB "Ძ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Jil is a capital letter form used in the Georgian Mtavruli script, which is a monumental uppercase style typically employed for titles, headings, or decorative text in the Georgian language. This character corresponds to the lowercase Georgian letter "ძ" (Jil) and represents the voiced alveolar affricate sound similar to the English "dz." It is distinct from the regular uppercase forms used in standard Georgian handwriting and printing, as Mtavruli letters are designed with a more ornate and uniform height. The inclusion of U+1CAB in the Unicode standard supports the representation of historical and ceremonial Georgian text, ensuring that this specific stylistic variant can be properly encoded and displayed in digital environments.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ძ
HTML Hex Encoding Ძ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB2 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1CAB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001CAB
C/C++/Java Escape \u1cab

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 "ძ" U+10EB Georgian Letter Jil
Lowercase Code Point "ძ" U+10EB Georgian Letter Jil
Simple Case Folding "ძ" U+10EB Georgian Letter Jil
Case Folding "ძ" U+10EB Georgian Letter Jil
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ძ" U+10EB Georgian Letter Jil
NFKC Simple Casefold "ძ" U+10EB Georgian Letter Jil
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