U+0565 "ե" Armenian Small Letter Ech Unicode Character

U+0565 "ե" Armenian Small Letter Ech is the lowercase form of the fourteenth letter in the Armenian alphabet, known as "Ech" (Ե). This character represents the vowel sound /ɛ/ or /e/ depending on its position within a word and is used in the modern Eastern and Western Armenian orthographies to spell a wide range of native vocabulary. It appears in a cursive-like script style, featuring a single looped form that connects smoothly to adjacent letters in handwriting, and it plays a key role in distinguishing grammatical forms and word meanings in the Armenian language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0565
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Ech
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ե
HTML Hex Encoding	ե
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0565
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000565
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0565

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	"Ե" U+0535 Armenian Capital Letter Ech
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ե" U+0535 Armenian Capital Letter Ech
Uppercase Code Point	"Ե" U+0535 Armenian Capital Letter Ech
Titlecase Code Point	"Ե" U+0535 Armenian Capital Letter Ech
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