U+0566 "զ" Armenian Small Letter Za Unicode Character

U+0566 "զ" Armenian Small Letter Za is the lowercase form of the twenty-sixth letter in the modern Eastern and classical Western alphabets of the Armenian language, representing the voiced alveolar sibilant sound /z/. This letter, historically derived from the Greek letter Zeta, is essential for writing native Armenian words and appears prominently in both printed and handwritten texts. In Unicode, it resides in the Armenian block, and its uppercase counterpart is U+0536 "Զ" Armenian Capital Letter Za, allowing for standard capitalization in digital text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0566
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Za
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	զ
HTML Hex Encoding	զ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0566
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000566
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0566

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	"Զ" U+0536 Armenian Capital Letter Za
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Զ" U+0536 Armenian Capital Letter Za
Uppercase Code Point	"Զ" U+0536 Armenian Capital Letter Za
Titlecase Code Point	"Զ" U+0536 Armenian Capital Letter Za
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