U+0579 "չ" Armenian Small Letter Cha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+0579 "չ" Armenian Small Letter Cha is the lowercase form of the twenty-fifth letter of the Armenian alphabet, which represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate sound /tʃʰ/ in Eastern Armenian and a similar aspirated sound in Western Armenian. It is part of the Armenian script block in Unicode and is used in modern written Armenian across both major dialects, appearing in words such as "չէ" (no) and "ջուր" (water). Historically, this letter has maintained its distinct phonetic role since the classical Armenian period, and in the standard Armenian numerical system, it does not carry a numeric value due to its later addition to the alphabet. Visually, the character resembles a stylized form with a curved tail, and its uppercase counterpart is U+0549 "Չ".

General Properties

Code Point U+0579
Version Added 1.1
Name Armenian Small Letter Cha
Block Armenian
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding չ
HTML Hex Encoding չ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD5 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0579
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000579
C/C++/Java Escape \u0579

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 "Չ" U+0549 Armenian Capital Letter Cha
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Չ" U+0549 Armenian Capital Letter Cha
Uppercase Code Point "Չ" U+0549 Armenian Capital Letter Cha
Titlecase Code Point "Չ" U+0549 Armenian Capital Letter Cha
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