U+053C "Լ" Armenian Capital Letter Liwn Unicode Character

U+053C "Լ" Armenian Capital Letter Liwn is the uppercase form of the 30th letter in the Armenian alphabet, corresponding to the sound /l/ in modern Eastern and Western Armenian. In traditional Armenian numerology, this letter carries the numeric value of 30. Its lowercase counterpart is U+056C "լ", and the letter itself is derived from the ancient Armenian script created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. This capital character is used in writing the Armenian language, appearing at the beginning of proper nouns and in the first word of formal sentences, and it plays a distinctive role in Armenian typography and calligraphy.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Լ
HTML Hex Encoding	Լ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x053C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000053C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u053c

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	"լ" U+056C Armenian Small Letter Liwn
Lowercase Code Point	"լ" U+056C Armenian Small Letter Liwn
Simple Case Folding	"լ" U+056C Armenian Small Letter Liwn
Case Folding	"լ" U+056C Armenian Small Letter Liwn
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"լ" U+056C Armenian Small Letter Liwn
NFKC Simple Casefold	"լ" U+056C Armenian Small Letter Liwn
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