U+0531 "Ա" Armenian Capital Letter Ayb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

Ա

U+0531 "Ա" Armenian Capital Letter Ayb is the first letter of the Armenian alphabet and represents the sound "a" as in "father". It is used in the Eastern and Western standard forms of the Armenian language, and its lowercase counterpart is U+0561 "ա". The letter holds cultural and historical significance as the beginning of the Armenian script, which was created around 405 AD by the scholar Mesrop Mashtots.

General Properties

Code Point U+0531
Version Added 1.1
Name Armenian Capital Letter Ayb
Block Armenian
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ա
HTML Hex Encoding Ա
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD4 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0531
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000531
C/C++/Java Escape \u0531

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Uppercase Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point "ա" U+0561 Armenian Small Letter Ayb
Lowercase Code Point "ա" U+0561 Armenian Small Letter Ayb
Simple Case Folding "ա" U+0561 Armenian Small Letter Ayb
Case Folding "ա" U+0561 Armenian Small Letter Ayb
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ա" U+0561 Armenian Small Letter Ayb
NFKC Simple Casefold "ա" U+0561 Armenian Small Letter Ayb
Script Armenian
Script Extensions Armenian
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Upper