U+0536 "Զ" Armenian Capital Letter Za Unicode Character

U+0536 "Զ" Armenian Capital Letter Za is the uppercase form of the fourteenth letter in the Armenian alphabet, which represents the voiced alveolar affricate sound "dz". This letter is used in both Eastern and Western Armenian script and is a key component of the Armenian language, which has a unique alphabet invented by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. In lowercase, it appears as "զ", commonly known as "za". The character is encoded in the Armenian block of Unicode, supporting the written preservation of the language's rich literary and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0536
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Capital Letter Za
Block	Armenian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Զ
HTML Hex Encoding	Զ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0536
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000536
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0536

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	"զ" U+0566 Armenian Small Letter Za
Lowercase Code Point	"զ" U+0566 Armenian Small Letter Za
Simple Case Folding	"զ" U+0566 Armenian Small Letter Za
Case Folding	"զ" U+0566 Armenian Small Letter Za
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"զ" U+0566 Armenian Small Letter Za
NFKC Simple Casefold	"զ" U+0566 Armenian Small Letter Za
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