U+053A "Ժ" Armenian Capital Letter Zhe Unicode Character

U+053A "Ժ" Armenian Capital Letter Zhe is the uppercase form of the fourteenth letter in the Armenian alphabet, primarily used to represent the voiced postalveolar fricative sound /ʒ/, similar to the "s" in the English word "pleasure." In the Armenian numerical system, it holds the value of ten, and its lowercase counterpart is "ժ" (U+056A). This letter appears in both Eastern and Western Armenian orthographies, and it is an integral part of written Armenian, appearing in historical texts and modern usage alike.

General Properties

Code Point	U+053A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Capital Letter Zhe
Block	Armenian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ժ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ժ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x053A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000053A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u053a

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	"ժ" U+056A Armenian Small Letter Zhe
Lowercase Code Point	"ժ" U+056A Armenian Small Letter Zhe
Simple Case Folding	"ժ" U+056A Armenian Small Letter Zhe
Case Folding	"ժ" U+056A Armenian Small Letter Zhe
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ժ" U+056A Armenian Small Letter Zhe
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ժ" U+056A Armenian Small Letter Zhe
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