U+056D "խ" Armenian Small Letter Xeh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+056D "խ" Armenian Small Letter Xeh is the lowercase form of the twenty-first letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless velar fricative sound /χ/, similar to the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch." This letter is used in both Eastern and Western Armenian dialects and derives from the classical Armenian orthography, where it appears in written texts dating back to the fifth century. Its uppercase counterpart is U+053D "Խ" Armenian Capital Letter Xeh, and in the Armenian numeral system, it holds the numerical value of 40.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+056D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Letter Xeh |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | խ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | խ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x056D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000056D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u056d |
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 | "Խ" U+053D Armenian Capital Letter Xeh |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Խ" U+053D Armenian Capital Letter Xeh |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Խ" U+053D Armenian Capital Letter Xeh |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Խ" U+053D Armenian Capital Letter Xeh |
| 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 |