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 |