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.