U+2D22 "ⴢ" Georgian Small Letter Hie Unicode Character

U+2D22 "ⴢ" Georgian Small Letter Hie is part of the Georgian Extended block, representing a lowercase letter used in the Khutsuri or Asomtavruli ecclesiastical script of the Georgian language. This character corresponds to the uppercase version U+10A2, and its primary function is to denote the aspirated voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the English "h". Historically, the Khutsuri script was employed in religious texts and manuscripts, and this letter hie played a role in accurately representing the phonetic nuances of Old Georgian in liturgical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2D22
Version Added	4.1
Name	Georgian Small Letter Hie
Block	Georgian Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⴢ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⴢ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB4 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2D22
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002D22
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2d22

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	"Ⴢ" U+10C2 Georgian Capital Letter Hie
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⴢ" U+10C2 Georgian Capital Letter Hie
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⴢ" U+10C2 Georgian Capital Letter Hie
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⴢ" U+10C2 Georgian Capital Letter Hie
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