What ჺ means
It marks a Bats throat sound. Bats uses a Georgian script adapted for its sounds, with ჺ modeled on Arabic ʿayn (ع).
Georgian writing is attested in church texts from the 5th century and developed through Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli, the modern form. A 1984 Bats–Georgian–Russian dictionary reproduces ჺ from a handwritten manuscript; its material was collected about half a century before publication. A Unicode proposal from 1999 cites that example; it dates use, not invention.
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ᲺGeorgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Ain
عArabic Letter Ain
ʕLatin Letter Pharyngeal Voiced Fricative
ⴭGeorgian Small Letter Aen
ჸGeorgian Letter Elifi
ჹGeorgian Letter Turned Gan
჻Georgian Paragraph Separator
ͰGreek Capital Letter Heta
ͱGreek Small Letter Heta
ͲGreek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi
ͳGreek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
͵Greek Lower Numeral SignHow to type or find ჺ
- Search it as
- Bats letter · Batsbi · Tsova-Tush · Arabic ain
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ჺCSS
\10FAHow do I type ჺ?
CLDR 43's Android Georgian layout omits ჺ from its basic keys; ChromeOS lists it among shifted symbols. Enter U10FA in a character picker if needed; a box means the font lacks the glyph.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ჺ
HTML hex
ჺ
CSS content
content: "\10FA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%83%BA
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.