U+0575 "յ" Armenian Small Letter Yi Unicode Character

U+0575 "յ" Armenian Small Letter Yi is a letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the semivowel sound /j/ similar to the English "y" in "yes". This character is the lowercase form of the uppercase Յ and is used primarily in the Eastern and Western dialects of the Armenian language, appearing in both printed and handwritten texts. It falls within the Unicode block for Armenian letters, which was added to the standard to support the preservation and digital use of the Armenian script. In addition to its phonetic role, the letter has historical and cultural significance as part of the classical alphabet traditionally attributed to Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0575
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Yi
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	յ
HTML Hex Encoding	յ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0575
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000575
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0575

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	"Յ" U+0545 Armenian Capital Letter Yi
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Յ" U+0545 Armenian Capital Letter Yi
Uppercase Code Point	"Յ" U+0545 Armenian Capital Letter Yi
Titlecase Code Point	"Յ" U+0545 Armenian Capital Letter Yi
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