U+0562 "բ" Armenian Small Letter Ben Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0562 "բ" Armenian Small Letter Ben is the second letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiced bilabial stop sound /b/. It derives from the ancient Aramaic and Greek alphabets, similar to the Greek letter Beta, and is used in both Eastern and Western Armenian orthographies. In the Armenian numeral system, this letter holds the numerical value of 2. The character is part of the Armenian block in Unicode and is typically used as the lowercase form, with its uppercase counterpart being U+0532 "Բ".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0562 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Letter Ben |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | բ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | բ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0562 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000562 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0562 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Բ" U+0532 Armenian Capital Letter Ben |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Բ" U+0532 Armenian Capital Letter Ben |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Բ" U+0532 Armenian Capital Letter Ben |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Բ" U+0532 Armenian Capital Letter Ben |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |