U+055A "՚" Armenian Apostrophe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+055A "՚" Armenian Apostrophe is a punctuation mark used in the Armenian script to indicate elision, similar to the function of an apostrophe in English, though it appears as a small superscript comma-like symbol positioned above the baseline rather than a simple vertical tick. It is primarily employed to mark the omission of letters in contracted words or to separate certain suffixes and prefixes in classical and reformed orthography. Unlike the standard ASCII apostrophe, this character ensures proper typographic alignment and semantic distinction within Armenian text, and it is encoded separately to avoid confusion with other similar-looking punctuation marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+055A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Apostrophe |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Armenian Modifier Letter Right Half Ring |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ՚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ՚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x055A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000055A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u055a |
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 |
| Script | Armenian |
| Script Extensions | Armenian |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Other |