U+0556 "Ֆ" Armenian Capital Letter Feh Unicode Character

U+0556 "Ֆ" Armenian Capital Letter Feh is the final letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the sound /f/ and corresponding to the lowercase "ֆ" (U+0586). It was historically added to the standard 36-letter alphabet in the 12th century during the Cilician period to accommodate foreign loanwords and sounds, particularly from Greek and Latin. This uppercase form is used in the western Armenian script style for proper nouns and the beginning of sentences, though its usage is less common in modern orthographic conventions compared to its lowercase counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0556
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Capital Letter Feh
Block	Armenian
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ֆ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ֆ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0556
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000556
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0556

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	"ֆ" U+0586 Armenian Small Letter Feh
Lowercase Code Point	"ֆ" U+0586 Armenian Small Letter Feh
Simple Case Folding	"ֆ" U+0586 Armenian Small Letter Feh
Case Folding	"ֆ" U+0586 Armenian Small Letter Feh
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ֆ" U+0586 Armenian Small Letter Feh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ֆ" U+0586 Armenian Small Letter Feh
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