U+053F "Կ" Armenian Capital Letter Ken Unicode Character

U+053F "Կ" Armenian Capital Letter Ken is the uppercase form of the fourteenth letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the sound /k/ in classical and Eastern Armenian, and /ɡ/ in Western Armenian. Its numerical value in the Armenian numeral system is 60. Historically, the letter is believed to derive from the Greek gamma or a similar Semitic prototype, and it plays a standard role in Armenian orthography, appearing in words such as "Կարին" (Garin, a historical name) and in various proper nouns and common vocabulary.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Կ
HTML Hex Encoding	Կ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x053F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000053F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u053f

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	"կ" U+056F Armenian Small Letter Ken
Lowercase Code Point	"կ" U+056F Armenian Small Letter Ken
Simple Case Folding	"կ" U+056F Armenian Small Letter Ken
Case Folding	"կ" U+056F Armenian Small Letter Ken
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"կ" U+056F Armenian Small Letter Ken
NFKC Simple Casefold	"կ" U+056F Armenian Small Letter Ken
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