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Glyph for U+10B8
Source: Noto Sans Georgian

U+10B8 Georgian Capital Letter Shin

U+10B8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+10A0 to U+10FF Georgian in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Georgian script. Its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+10B8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Shini (asomtavruli Ⴘ, nuskhuri ⴘ, mkhedruli შ, mtavruli Შ) is the 28th letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 900.

Shini commonly represents the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant /ʃ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨sh⟩ in "shoe".

Representations

System Representation
Nº 4280
UTF-8 E1 82 B8
UTF-16 10 B8
UTF-32 00 00 10 B8
URL-Quoted %E1%82%B8
HTML hex reference Ⴘ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ⴘ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 33 96 34

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) GEORGIAN CAPITAL LETTER SHIN
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Georgian
General Category (gc) Uppercase Letter
Script (sc) Georgian
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+10B8 Georgian Capital Letter Shin
Lowercase (Lower) ✘︎
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
Uppercase (Upper) ✔︎
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+10B8 Georgian Capital Letter Shin
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+10B8 Georgian Capital Letter Shin
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+10B8 Georgian Capital Letter Shin
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+10B8 Georgian Capital Letter Shin
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘︎
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔︎
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘︎
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘︎
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘︎
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘︎
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✔︎
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✔︎
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔︎
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✔︎
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘︎
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘︎
Cased (Cased) ✔︎
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘︎
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘︎
Dash (Dash) ✘︎
Deprecated (Dep) ✘︎
Diacritic (Dia) ✘︎
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘︎
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘︎
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘︎
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘︎
Emoji (Emoji) ✘︎
Extender (Ext) ✘︎
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘︎
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+10B8 Georgian Capital Letter Shin
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔︎
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘︎
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘︎
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘︎
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘︎
ID Continue (IDC) ✔︎
ID Start (IDS) ✔︎
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘︎
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘︎
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘︎
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘︎
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘︎
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘︎
Math (Math) ✘︎
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘︎
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘︎
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘︎
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘︎
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘︎
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘︎
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘︎
Other Math (OMath) ✘︎
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘︎
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘︎
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘︎
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘︎
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘︎
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘︎
Radical (Radical) ✘︎
Sentence Break (SB) Upper
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘︎
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘︎
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘︎
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘︎
Variation Selector (VS) ✘︎
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘︎
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔︎
XID Start (XIDS) ✔︎
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘︎
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘︎
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘︎
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘︎
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+10B8 Georgian Capital Letter Shin
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2D18 Georgian Small Letter Shin
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R