U+0543 "Ճ" Armenian Capital Letter Cheh Unicode Character

U+0543 "Ճ" Armenian Capital Letter Cheh is the twenty-third letter of the Classical Armenian alphabet and corresponds to the affricate sound "ch" as in "church" in modern Eastern Armenian. It represents a numeral value of 600 in the Armenian numeral system, where each letter also doubles as a number. Visually, it resembles a hook or curved shape with a short horizontal stroke, and its lowercase form is "ճ". This letter appears in classical texts and modern usage, notably in words like "ճաշ" (chash) meaning "lunch" or "meal".

General Properties

Code Point	U+0543
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Capital Letter Cheh
Block	Armenian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ճ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ճ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0543
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000543
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0543

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	"ճ" U+0573 Armenian Small Letter Cheh
Lowercase Code Point	"ճ" U+0573 Armenian Small Letter Cheh
Simple Case Folding	"ճ" U+0573 Armenian Small Letter Cheh
Case Folding	"ճ" U+0573 Armenian Small Letter Cheh
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ճ" U+0573 Armenian Small Letter Cheh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ճ" U+0573 Armenian Small Letter Cheh
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