U+0547 "Շ" Armenian Capital Letter Sha Unicode Character

U+0547 "Շ" Armenian Capital Letter Sha is the uppercase form of the letter "sh" (շ) in the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound /ʃ/, similar to the "sh" in "ship". This character is part of the Armenian script, which was created by Saint Mesrop Mashtots in the early 5th century AD, and it is used in the Eastern and Western dialects of the Armenian language. In the Armenian alphabet, "Sha" is the twenty second letter, and its numerical value in the traditional Armenian numeral system is 500. The capital form is employed in writing proper nouns, at the beginning of sentences, and in titles, following standard capitalization rules for the Armenian language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0547
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Capital Letter Sha
Block	Armenian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Շ
HTML Hex Encoding	Շ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0547
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000547
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0547

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	"շ" U+0577 Armenian Small Letter Sha
Lowercase Code Point	"շ" U+0577 Armenian Small Letter Sha
Simple Case Folding	"շ" U+0577 Armenian Small Letter Sha
Case Folding	"շ" U+0577 Armenian Small Letter Sha
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"շ" U+0577 Armenian Small Letter Sha
NFKC Simple Casefold	"շ" U+0577 Armenian Small Letter Sha
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