U+054B "Ջ" Armenian Capital Letter Jheh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+054B "Ջ" Armenian Capital Letter Jheh is the twenty seventh letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiced postalveolar affricate sound /dʒ/, similar to the English "j" in "jump". In its lowercase form, ջ, it is used extensively in modern Eastern and Western Armenian orthography, appearing in common words such as "ջուր" (water) and "ջերմ" (warm). Historically, this letter has retained a consistent shape since the classical Armenian script was developed in the 5th century, and it holds a numeric value of 900 in the traditional Armenian numeral system. Visually, the capital form features a prominent vertical stroke with a curved top and a horizontal bar, distinguishing it from other letters in the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+054B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Capital Letter Jheh |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ջ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ջ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x054B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000054B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u054b |
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 | "ջ" U+057B Armenian Small Letter Jheh |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ջ" U+057B Armenian Small Letter Jheh |
| Simple Case Folding | "ջ" U+057B Armenian Small Letter Jheh |
| Case Folding | "ջ" U+057B Armenian Small Letter Jheh |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ջ" U+057B Armenian Small Letter Jheh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ջ" U+057B Armenian Small Letter Jheh |
| 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 |