U+0548 "Ո" Armenian Capital Letter Vo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+0548 "Ո" Armenian Capital Letter Vo is a grapheme used primarily in the Armenian alphabet to represent the voiced velar approximant sound [ʋ] or [v] in various dialects and contexts, and it corresponds to the lowercase form "ո". This letter appears only in classical orthography as a distinct capital form, as modern Armenian generally does not employ case-specific distinctions for this character, though it retains its usage in titles, headings, and certain typographic conventions. Historically, the letter derives from the ancient Armenian script created by Mesrop Mashtots in the early 5th century AD, and it is the 24th letter of the classical alphabet. In Unicode, it is encoded in the Armenian block (U+0530–U+058F) and is part of the standard character set for rendering Armenian text across digital platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+0548
Version Added 1.1
Name Armenian Capital Letter Vo
Block Armenian
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ո
HTML Hex Encoding Ո
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD5 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0548
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000548
C/C++/Java Escape \u0548

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 "ո" U+0578 Armenian Small Letter Vo
Lowercase Code Point "ո" U+0578 Armenian Small Letter Vo
Simple Case Folding "ո" U+0578 Armenian Small Letter Vo
Case Folding "ո" U+0578 Armenian Small Letter Vo
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ո" U+0578 Armenian Small Letter Vo
NFKC Simple Casefold "ո" U+0578 Armenian Small Letter Vo
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