U+0535 "Ե" Armenian Capital Letter Ech Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+0535 "Ե" Armenian Capital Letter Ech is the uppercase form of the letter "ech" in the Armenian alphabet, representing the vowel sound /ɛ/ or /e/ depending on its position within a word. This character belongs to the Armenian block of the Unicode standard and is used in the Eastern and Western varieties of the modern Armenian language, as well as in classical and medieval texts. As the fifth letter of the alphabet, it corresponds to the lowercase character "ե" (U+0565) and plays a fundamental role in Armenian writing, appearing in common words such as "Երևան" (Yerevan, the capital of Armenia) and "երկիր" (earth or country). Its design is consistent with the uncial or uppercase style of Armenian script, featuring a distinctive looping shape that descends below the baseline.

General Properties

Code Point U+0535
Version Added 1.1
Name Armenian Capital Letter Ech
Block Armenian
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ե
HTML Hex Encoding Ե
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD4 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0535
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000535
C/C++/Java Escape \u0535

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 "ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
Lowercase Code Point "ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
Simple Case Folding "ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
Case Folding "ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
NFKC Simple Casefold "ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
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