U+0541 "Ձ" Armenian Capital Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0541 "Ձ" Armenian Capital Letter Ja is the uppercase form of the letter "ձ" in the Armenian alphabet, where it represents the voiced affricate sound similar to the "dz" in the English word "adze." As part of the Armenian script, which was created in the 5th century AD by Mesrop Mashtots, this letter is primarily used in the Eastern and Western varieties of the Armenian language for writing historical and modern texts. In Unicode, it falls within the Armenian block (U+0530 to U+058F) and is coded specifically for use in digital environments, enabling proper text rendering and storage across different computer systems and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0541 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Capital Letter Ja |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ձ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ձ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0541 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000541 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0541 |
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 | "ձ" U+0571 Armenian Small Letter Ja |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ձ" U+0571 Armenian Small Letter Ja |
| Simple Case Folding | "ձ" U+0571 Armenian Small Letter Ja |
| Case Folding | "ձ" U+0571 Armenian Small Letter Ja |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ձ" U+0571 Armenian Small Letter Ja |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ձ" U+0571 Armenian Small Letter Ja |
| 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 |