U+0553 "Փ" Armenian Capital Letter Piwr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0553 "Փ" Armenian Capital Letter Piwr is the uppercase form of the twenty-sixth letter in the Armenian alphabet, known as "piwr" or "p'iwr," which represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive sound /pʰ/, similar to the "p" in the English word "pit." This letter is used primarily in classical and modern Eastern and Western Armenian orthographies, appearing at the beginning, middle, or end of words such as "փող" (p'ogh, meaning "money"). Its visual form features a distinct looped, curving shape unique to Armenian script, and it follows the letter "Ւ" (Yiwn) and precedes "Ք" (K'eh) in the standard alphabetical order, reflecting the historical development of the Armenian writing system created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0553 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Capital Letter Piwr |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Փ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Փ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0553 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000553 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0553 |
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 | "փ" U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr |
| Lowercase Code Point | "փ" U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr |
| Simple Case Folding | "փ" U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr |
| Case Folding | "փ" U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "փ" U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "փ" U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr |
| 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 |