U+056B "ի" Armenian Small Letter Ini Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+056B "ի" Armenian Small Letter Ini is the lowercase form of the fourteenth letter of the Armenian alphabet, corresponding to the sound "i" as in "machine." Used extensively in both Eastern and Western Armenian orthographies, it is a fundamental component of Armenian script, appearing in common words such as "ինչ" (what) and "իր" (his/her). This letter has historical roots in the classical Armenian script created by Mesrop Mashtots in the early 5th century, and its uppercase counterpart, Ի, represents the capital Ini.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+056B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Letter Ini |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ի |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ի |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x056B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000056B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u056b |
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 | "Ի" U+053B Armenian Capital Letter Ini |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ի" U+053B Armenian Capital Letter Ini |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ի" U+053B Armenian Capital Letter Ini |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ի" U+053B Armenian Capital Letter Ini |
| 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 |