U+1CB8 "Ჸ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Elifi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ჸ
U+1CB8 "Ჸ" Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Elifi is a stylistic uppercase form of the Georgian script letter Elifi, which is part of the extended Mtavruli range used primarily for decorative or ceremonial headings rather than standard text. This character corresponds to the lowercase Mkhedruli letter "ⴸ" (Elifi), and its inclusion in Unicode supports the historic and calligraphic tradition of rendering Georgian in a distinctive majuscule style, often seen in inscriptions, titles, or religious manuscripts. The Mtavruli script, unlike the more common modern alphabet, lacks a true case distinction in everyday usage, making U+1CB8 a specialized glyph that preserves a unique aspect of Georgian typographic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CB8 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Elifi |
| Block | Georgian Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ჸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ჸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cb8 |
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 | "ჸ" U+10F8 Georgian Letter Elifi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ჸ" U+10F8 Georgian Letter Elifi |
| Simple Case Folding | "ჸ" U+10F8 Georgian Letter Elifi |
| Case Folding | "ჸ" U+10F8 Georgian Letter Elifi |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ჸ" U+10F8 Georgian Letter Elifi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ჸ" U+10F8 Georgian Letter Elifi |
| 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 |