U+054C "Ռ" Armenian Capital Letter Ra Unicode Character

U+054C "Ռ" Armenian Capital Letter Ra is the uppercase form of the letter "r" in the Armenian alphabet, representing the aspirated trill sound [r] in Eastern Armenian and a similar sound in Western Armenian. It is used in the classical and reformed orthographies of the Armenian language and holds a numeric value of 1000 in the traditional Armenian numeral system. This letter is distinct from its lowercase counterpart "ռ" (U+057C) and appears primarily at the beginning of words or in all-capitalized text, playing a key role in preserving the phonetic and historical integrity of written Armenian.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ռ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ռ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x054C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000054C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u054c

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	"ռ" U+057C Armenian Small Letter Ra
Lowercase Code Point	"ռ" U+057C Armenian Small Letter Ra
Simple Case Folding	"ռ" U+057C Armenian Small Letter Ra
Case Folding	"ռ" U+057C Armenian Small Letter Ra
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ռ" U+057C Armenian Small Letter Ra
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ռ" U+057C Armenian Small Letter Ra
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