U+2D16 "ⴖ" Georgian Small Letter Ghan Unicode Character

U+2D16 "ⴖ" Georgian Small Letter Ghan is part of the Georgian script extension used for the Mkhdruli alphabet, representing the letter "ghan" which corresponds to the Modern Georgian capital letter "ღ". This character is historically employed in the Khutsuri or ecclesiastical Georgian writing system, where it functioned as the lowercase form alongside its uppercase counterpart, and it phonetically represents a voiced velar fricative sound similar to the English "gh" in some transliterations. Today, it is rarely used in everyday Georgian text, having been largely replaced by the modern Mkhedruli script, but it remains of interest for historical linguistics, paleography, and digital encoding of ancient manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2D16
Version Added	4.1
Name	Georgian Small Letter Ghan
Block	Georgian Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⴖ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⴖ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB4 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2D16
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002D16
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2d16

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	"Ⴖ" U+10B6 Georgian Capital Letter Ghan
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⴖ" U+10B6 Georgian Capital Letter Ghan
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⴖ" U+10B6 Georgian Capital Letter Ghan
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⴖ" U+10B6 Georgian Capital Letter Ghan
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