U+053B "Ի" Armenian Capital Letter Ini Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ի
U+053B "Ի" Armenian Capital Letter Ini is the uppercase form of the Armenian letter "ini", which represents the vowel sound [i] in the Armenian alphabet. This letter is the eleventh character in the classical Armenian script order and appears in both Eastern and Western Armenian orthographies, though its use can vary in frequency. Historically, "ini" has been a fundamental part of written Armenian since the creation of the alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD, and it is commonly found in religious and literary texts as well as modern typography. In typical usage, the capital form "Ի" appears at the beginning of proper nouns or sentences, while its lowercase counterpart "ի" is used in general writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+053B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Capital Letter Ini |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ի |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ի |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x053B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000053B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u053b |
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 | "ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini |
| Simple Case Folding | "ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini |
| Case Folding | "ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini |
| 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 |