U+054D "Ս" Armenian Capital Letter Seh Unicode Character

U+054D "Ս" Armenian Capital Letter Seh is the uppercase form of the fourteenth letter in the Armenian alphabet, corresponding to the sound /s/ as in "see." It is used primarily in the Eastern and Classical orthographies of the Armenian language, where it appears in both historical manuscripts and modern printed texts. Its lowercase counterpart is U+057D "ս," and the letter derives its name from the Armenian word for "plough," reflecting the traditional naming convention of the alphabet. In Unicode, it belongs to the Armenian script block and is encoded for digital representation of Armenian text across various platforms and documents.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ս
HTML Hex Encoding	Ս
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x054D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000054D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u054d

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	"ս" U+057D Armenian Small Letter Seh
Lowercase Code Point	"ս" U+057D Armenian Small Letter Seh
Simple Case Folding	"ս" U+057D Armenian Small Letter Seh
Case Folding	"ս" U+057D Armenian Small Letter Seh
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ս" U+057D Armenian Small Letter Seh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ս" U+057D Armenian Small Letter Seh
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