U+057A "պ" Armenian Small Letter Peh Unicode Character

U+057A "պ" Armenian Small Letter Peh is the lowercase form of the fifteenth letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless bilabial plosive sound [p] in Eastern and Western Armenian. Its uppercase counterpart is U+054A "Պ" Armenian Capital Letter Peh, and the letter's numerical value in the traditional Armenian numeral system is 500. In standard Armenian typography, "պ" is visually characterized by a looped upper section and a vertical stem, reflecting its historical evolution from the Greek letter Pi. This character is used in written Armenian across both classical and modern contexts, appearing in religious texts, literature, and everyday communication, and it has been part of the Unicode Standard since version 1.1 in 1993.

General Properties

Code Point	U+057A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Peh
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	պ
HTML Hex Encoding	պ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x057A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000057A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u057a

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	"Պ" U+054A Armenian Capital Letter Peh
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Պ" U+054A Armenian Capital Letter Peh
Uppercase Code Point	"Պ" U+054A Armenian Capital Letter Peh
Titlecase Code Point	"Պ" U+054A Armenian Capital Letter Peh
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