U+0573 "ճ" Armenian Small Letter Cheh Unicode Character

U+0573 "ճ" Armenian Small Letter Cheh is a letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the affricate consonant sound /tʃ/ in Eastern Armenian and /dʒ/ in Western Armenian. This character is the twenty-third letter of the standard Armenian script and is used in both classical and modern orthographies to form words within the Armenian language. In its lowercase form, it appears as a distinct glyph with a vertical stem and a curved tail, while its uppercase equivalent is the character "Ճ" (U+0543). Historically, "ճ" has been a fundamental component of written Armenian for centuries, contributing to the rich literary and cultural heritage of the Armenian people.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0573
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Cheh
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ճ
HTML Hex Encoding	ճ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0573
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000573
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0573

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	"Ճ" U+0543 Armenian Capital Letter Cheh
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ճ" U+0543 Armenian Capital Letter Cheh
Uppercase Code Point	"Ճ" U+0543 Armenian Capital Letter Cheh
Titlecase Code Point	"Ճ" U+0543 Armenian Capital Letter Cheh
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