U+0549 "Չ" Armenian Capital Letter Cha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0549 "Չ" Armenian Capital Letter Cha is a letter in the Armenian alphabet, specifically representing the aspirated voiceless palatal affricate sound /t͡ʃʰ/, similar to the "ch" in the English word "cheese." It is the 25th letter of the classical Armenian alphabet and the 27th in the modern Eastern and Western Armenian alphabets, with a numerical value of 700 in the traditional Armenian numeral system. Visually, the character features a distinctive rounded top stroke with a diagonal tail, and its lowercase counterpart is "չ" (U+0579). This letter is used in written Armenian across various dialects and remains an essential component of the language's orthography for representing its unique phonetic inventory.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0549 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Capital Letter Cha |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Չ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Չ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0549 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000549 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0549 |
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 | "չ" U+0579 Armenian Small Letter Cha |
| Lowercase Code Point | "չ" U+0579 Armenian Small Letter Cha |
| Simple Case Folding | "չ" U+0579 Armenian Small Letter Cha |
| Case Folding | "չ" U+0579 Armenian Small Letter Cha |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "չ" U+0579 Armenian Small Letter Cha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "չ" U+0579 Armenian Small Letter Cha |
| 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 |