U+0577 "շ" Armenian Small Letter Sha Unicode Character

U+0577 "շ" Armenian Small Letter Sha is the twenty-third letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound similar to the English "sh" in "ship." In the Armenian numeral system, it carries the numerical value of 600. This lowercase form is derived from the uppercase "Շ" (U+0547) and is used primarily in the Eastern and Western classical and modern orthographies of the Armenian language. The letter is commonly found in words such as "շուն" (shun, meaning dog) and plays a fundamental role in Armenian script, appearing across literary, religious, and everyday texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0577
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Sha
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	շ
HTML Hex Encoding	շ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0577
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000577
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0577

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	"Շ" U+0547 Armenian Capital Letter Sha
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Շ" U+0547 Armenian Capital Letter Sha
Uppercase Code Point	"Շ" U+0547 Armenian Capital Letter Sha
Titlecase Code Point	"Շ" U+0547 Armenian Capital Letter Sha
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