U+057B "ջ" Armenian Small Letter Jheh Unicode Character

U+057B "ջ" Armenian Small Letter Jheh is a letter in the Armenian alphabet, specifically representing the voiced retroflex affricate sound [d͡ʒ], similar to the "j" in the English word "judge." It is the 27th letter of the modern Armenian script and is used in both Eastern and Western Armenian varieties. This lowercase glyph corresponds to the uppercase form "Ջ" (U+054B) and is commonly found in Armenian words such as "ջուր" (water) and "ջերմ" (warm). In Armenian numerical notation, it holds a value of 900, reflecting its historical role in the alphanumeric system.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ջ
HTML Hex Encoding	ջ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD5 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x057B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000057B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u057b

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	"Ջ" U+054B Armenian Capital Letter Jheh
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ջ" U+054B Armenian Capital Letter Jheh
Uppercase Code Point	"Ջ" U+054B Armenian Capital Letter Jheh
Titlecase Code Point	"Ջ" U+054B Armenian Capital Letter Jheh
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