U+2D01 "ⴁ" Georgian Small Letter Ban Unicode Character

U+2D01 "ⴁ" Georgian Small Letter Ban is the second letter of the modern Georgian script in its lowercase form, used in the Mkhdruli alphabet to represent the voiced bilabial plosive sound /b/. This character originates from the Georgian language, the official language of Georgia, and is part of the Georgian Extended Unicode block, which encodes variants and historical forms. In the standard capitalization system, its uppercase equivalent is Georgian Capital Letter Ban (U+10D1). The letter Ban is common in Georgian vocabulary, appearing in words like "baba" (grandfather) and "burti" (ball), and holds everyday utility for writing Georgian texts in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2D01
Version Added	4.1
Name	Georgian Small Letter Ban
Block	Georgian Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⴁ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⴁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB4 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2D01
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002D01
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2d01

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ⴁ" U+10A1 Georgian Capital Letter Ban
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⴁ" U+10A1 Georgian Capital Letter Ban
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⴁ" U+10A1 Georgian Capital Letter Ban
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⴁ" U+10A1 Georgian Capital Letter Ban
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower