U+056F "կ" Armenian Small Letter Ken Unicode Character

U+056F "կ" Armenian Small Letter Ken is the thirty-first letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound k in Eastern Armenian and the voiceless aspirated kʰ in Western Armenian. It is used in the modern and classical Armenian scripts, descending from the uppercase form "Կ" (U+053F), and appears in various Armenian words and texts, including the word "կենդանի" (kendani, meaning animal or alive). As part of the Armenian block in Unicode, this character supports digital representation of the Armenian language, preserving its literary and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+056F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Ken
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	կ
HTML Hex Encoding	կ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x056F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000056F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u056f

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	"Կ" U+053F Armenian Capital Letter Ken
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Կ" U+053F Armenian Capital Letter Ken
Uppercase Code Point	"Կ" U+053F Armenian Capital Letter Ken
Titlecase Code Point	"Կ" U+053F Armenian Capital Letter Ken
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