Ghani (letter)

Ghani, or Ghan (Asomtavruli: , Nuskhuri: , Mkhedruli: ღ, Mtavruli: Ღ; ) is the 26th letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 700. In the Georgian language, Ghani’s phonemic realisation can be classified as a voiced velar fricative , although it is argued that it can also be a voiced uvular fricative , depending on the context it appears in. It is typically romanized with the digraph Gh or with the letters á¸Â, Ǧ, ÄÂ, and Ɣ.

The mkhedruli form has become popular as an emoticon in the Western world due to its resemblance to a heart symbol and as part of a "love" emoticon, is often rendered as: ღ <3, and sometimes ღ(✿◠ᴗ◠)ღ

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See also

• Latin letter Ǧ
• Latin digraph Gh
• Cyrillic letter Ge with stroke

References

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) Georgian, 1991-2013
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) Georgian Supplement, 1991-2013