U+0584 "ք" Armenian Small Letter Keh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0584 "ք" Armenian Small Letter Keh is the final letter of the classical Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless aspirated velar plosive sound /kʰ/, similar to the "k" in the English word "kite." In modern Eastern Armenian, it is pronounced without aspiration, and in Western Armenian, it often shifts to a /g/ sound. This letter is derived from the Greek letter kappa and is used in written Armenian, where it serves both as a phonetic character and a numeral with a value of 9000 in the Armenian numeral system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0584 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Letter Keh |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ք |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ք |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0584 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000584 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0584 |
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 | "Ք" U+0554 Armenian Capital Letter Keh |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ք" U+0554 Armenian Capital Letter Keh |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ք" U+0554 Armenian Capital Letter Keh |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ք" U+0554 Armenian Capital Letter Keh |
| 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 |