U+055B "՛" Armenian Emphasis Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
՛
U+055B "՛" Armenian Emphasis Mark is a diacritical mark used in the Armenian script to indicate emphasis or a stressed syllable in a word, similar in function to an acute accent in other writing systems. It is placed over a vowel or a consonant that carries syllabic stress, and it appears as a small, right-leaning stroke above the letter. This mark is an essential component of Armenian orthography, helping to clarify pronunciation and meaning, particularly in literary and formal texts where stress placement can distinguish between homographs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+055B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Emphasis Mark |
| 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x055B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000055B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u055b |
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 |