Uni (letter)

Uni, or Un (Asomtavruli: ႭჃ, later Ⴓ; Nuskhuri: ⴍⴣ, later ⴓ; Mkhedruli: უ or ; Mtavruli: Უ; Georgian: უნი, უნ) is the 23rd letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 400 as letter Vie. Uni commonly represents the close back rounded vowel /u/, like the pronunciation of ⟨oo⟩ in "boot". In the Svan language, Uni also represents the close front rounded vowel /y/. It is typically romanized with the letter U.

An additional mkhedruli uni letters, უ̈ with an umlaut, უ̄ with a macron, უ̄̈ with both umlaut and macron, and უ̂ with a circumflex are used in Svan language.

Letter

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli	mtavruli
standard	alternative
(digraph) (ligature)	(digraph) (ligature)

Three-dimensional

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli

Stroke order

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli
standard	alternative

Computer encodings

Character information
Preview	Ⴓ	ⴓ	უ	Უ
Unicode name	GEORGIAN CAPITAL LETTER UN	GEORGIAN SMALL LETTER UN	GEORGIAN LETTER UN	GEORGIAN MTAVRULI CAPITAL LETTER UN
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	4275	U+10B3	11539	U+2D13	4323	U+10E3	7331	U+1CA3
UTF-8	225 130 179	E1 82 B3	226 180 147	E2 B4 93	225 131 163	E1 83 A3	225 178 163	E1 B2 A3
Numeric character reference	Ⴓ	Ⴓ	ⴓ	ⴓ	უ	უ	Უ	Უ

With diacritic

უ̈	უ̄	უ̄̈	უ̂

U+10E3 U+0308	U+10E3 U+0304	U+10E3 U+0304 U+0308	U+10E3 U+0302

Braille

mkhedruli

Bibliography

Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) , 1991-2013
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) , 1991-2013