U+2D25 "ⴥ" Georgian Small Letter Hoe Unicode Character

U+2D25 "ⴥ" Georgian Small Letter Hoe is a distinctive glyph from the Georgian script, specifically part of the Mkhdruli alphabet, where it represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, historically used in the Georgian language for the letter "hoe." This character belongs to the Georgian Extended block and is typically employed in the Nuskhuri or Khutsuri variants of the script, often appearing in ecclesiastical or historical texts. While it is less common in modern Georgian, which has largely shifted to the standard Asomtavruli and Mkhedruli forms, its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and preservation of this ancient letter for linguistic and scholarly purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2D25
Version Added	4.1
Name	Georgian Small Letter Hoe
Block	Georgian Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⴥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⴥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB4 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2D25
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002D25
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2d25

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	"Ⴥ" U+10C5 Georgian Capital Letter Hoe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⴥ" U+10C5 Georgian Capital Letter Hoe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⴥ" U+10C5 Georgian Capital Letter Hoe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⴥ" U+10C5 Georgian Capital Letter Hoe
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