U+0586 "ֆ" Armenian Small Letter Feh Unicode Character

U+0586 "ֆ" Armenian Small Letter Feh is the final letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless labiodental fricative sound [f]. It is primarily used in classical and modern Eastern Armenian, where it appears in loanwords and foreign terms, as the sound [f] is not native to the Armenian language. In print, this letter features a distinctive curved shape with a closed loop at the top and a straight descender, reflecting the script's elegant medieval calligraphic origins. Its uppercase counterpart is U+0556 "Ֆ" Armenian Capital Letter Feh, and together they complete the 38-letter Armenian alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0586
Version Added	1.1
Name	Armenian Small Letter Feh
Block	Armenian
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ֆ
HTML Hex Encoding	ֆ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD6 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0586
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000586
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0586

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	"Ֆ" U+0556 Armenian Capital Letter Feh
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ֆ" U+0556 Armenian Capital Letter Feh
Uppercase Code Point	"Ֆ" U+0556 Armenian Capital Letter Feh
Titlecase Code Point	"Ֆ" U+0556 Armenian Capital Letter Feh
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