U+053E "Ծ" Armenian Capital Letter Ca Unicode Character

U+053E "Ծ" Armenian Capital Letter Ca is the uppercase form of the thirty-third letter in the Armenian alphabet, which is used to represent the affricate sound [t͡s] in Eastern Armenian and [d͡z] in Western Armenian. This letter, known as "Ca" or "Tsa," is visually distinguished by its unique shape resembling an angular loop with a descending tail, and it appears in both Classical and modern orthographies of the Armenian script. When used in writing, it typically corresponds to the lowercase form "ծ," and its numeric value in the older Armenian numeral system is 9,000, reflecting the historical significance of the letter in Armenian cultural and linguistic heritage.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ծ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ծ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x053E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000053E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u053e

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	"ծ" U+056E Armenian Small Letter Ca
Lowercase Code Point	"ծ" U+056E Armenian Small Letter Ca
Simple Case Folding	"ծ" U+056E Armenian Small Letter Ca
Case Folding	"ծ" U+056E Armenian Small Letter Ca
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ծ" U+056E Armenian Small Letter Ca
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ծ" U+056E Armenian Small Letter Ca
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