U+057E "վ" Armenian Small Letter Vew Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+057E "վ" Armenian Small Letter Vew is the twenty-eighth letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the sound "v" in both Eastern and Western Armenian and derived from the capital form "Վ" (Vew). As a core component of the Armenian script, it appears frequently in classical and modern texts, including religious manuscripts and contemporary writing, and its numerical value in the traditional Armenian numeral system is 3000, reflecting the letter's historical significance in the development of the language and its enduring role in Armenian literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+057E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Letter Vew |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | վ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | վ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD5 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x057E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000057E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u057e |
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 | "Վ" U+054E Armenian Capital Letter Vew |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Վ" U+054E Armenian Capital Letter Vew |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Վ" U+054E Armenian Capital Letter Vew |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Վ" U+054E Armenian Capital Letter Vew |
| 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 |