U+0571 "ձ" Armenian Small Letter Ja Unicode Character

U+0571 "ձ" Armenian Small Letter Ja is the lowercase form of the thirty-third letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiced postalveolar affricate sound /dʒ/, similar to the "j" in English "jump." It is used in the Eastern and Western dialects of the Armenian language, typically appearing in the middle or end of words, and holds a numeric value of 1,000 in the Armenian numeral system. This character is part of the Armenian script block in Unicode and is essential for writing proper Armenian orthography, where it contrasts with its uppercase counterpart "Ձ" (U+0541).

General Properties

Code Point	U+0571
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Ja
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ձ
HTML Hex Encoding	ձ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0571
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000571
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0571

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	"Ձ" U+0541 Armenian Capital Letter Ja
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ձ" U+0541 Armenian Capital Letter Ja
Uppercase Code Point	"Ձ" U+0541 Armenian Capital Letter Ja
Titlecase Code Point	"Ձ" U+0541 Armenian Capital Letter Ja
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