U+054A "Պ" Armenian Capital Letter Peh Unicode Character

U+054A "Պ" Armenian Capital Letter Peh is the uppercase form of the 26th letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless bilabial plosive sound /p/. In its lowercase form, it appears as "պ" and is an essential component of the Eastern and Western Armenian scripts, used in modern Armenian writing for words such as "պատմություն" meaning history. Historically, this letter is derived from the Greek letter Pi and has maintained its phonetic value since the creation of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD.

General Properties

Code Point	U+054A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Capital Letter Peh
Block	Armenian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Պ
HTML Hex Encoding	Պ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x054A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000054A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u054a

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	"պ" U+057A Armenian Small Letter Peh
Lowercase Code Point	"պ" U+057A Armenian Small Letter Peh
Simple Case Folding	"պ" U+057A Armenian Small Letter Peh
Case Folding	"պ" U+057A Armenian Small Letter Peh
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"պ" U+057A Armenian Small Letter Peh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"պ" U+057A Armenian Small Letter Peh
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