U+055E "՞" Armenian Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
՞
U+055E "՞" Armenian Question Mark is a punctuation mark used in the Armenian script, specifically positioned over the final vowel of a word to indicate a yes or no question. Unlike the Latin question mark, which appears at the end of a sentence, this mark is placed above the last letter, typically an alphabet character, and its curved, wavy shape resembles a small tilde or an inverted caret. It is encoded in the Unicode Armenian block and plays a crucial role in Armenian orthography, distinguishing interrogative sentences from statements in written text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+055E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Question 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x055E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000055E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u055e |
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 |