U+0560 "ՠ" Armenian Small Letter Turned Ayb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0560 "ՠ" Armenian Small Letter Turned Ayb is a relatively obscure and rarely used character within the Armenian script, representing a variation of the letter "Ayb". This turned or inverted form of the standard "Ա" (Ayb) was historically proposed for specific phonetic transcriptions or dialectal writing, particularly in linguistic contexts to denote a slightly altered vowel sound distinct from the standard open front unrounded vowel. It is not a part of the modern standard Armenian alphabet used in either the Eastern or Western literary traditions, and its inclusion in Unicode serves primarily academic, historical, or specialized typographic purposes, such as representing extinct or dialectal phonemes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0560 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Armenian Small Letter Turned Ayb |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ՠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ՠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0560 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000560 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0560 |