U+0587 "և" Armenian Small Ligature Ech Yiwn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0587 "և" Armenian Small Ligature Ech Yiwn is a typographic ligature in the Armenian script that combines the letters "Ե" (ech) and "Ւ" (yiwn), representing the equivalent of the English conjunction "and." It functions as a single grapheme in modern Armenian orthography, commonly used in both printed and handwritten texts to streamline writing and reading. This character is distinct from the separate letters it derives from, and its inclusion in Unicode preserves its role as a standard element of the Armenian alphabet, appearing in lowercase form within digital and printed documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0587 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Ligature Ech Yiwn |
| Block | Armenian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech "ւ" U+0582 Armenian Small Letter Yiwn |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | և |
| HTML Hex Encoding | և |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0587 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000587 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0587 |