U+055A "՚" Armenian Apostrophe Unicode Character

U+055A "՚" Armenian Apostrophe is a punctuation mark used in the Armenian script to indicate elision, similar to the function of an apostrophe in English, though it appears as a small superscript comma-like symbol positioned above the baseline rather than a simple vertical tick. It is primarily employed to mark the omission of letters in contracted words or to separate certain suffixes and prefixes in classical and reformed orthography. Unlike the standard ASCII apostrophe, this character ensures proper typographic alignment and semantic distinction within Armenian text, and it is encoded separately to avoid confusion with other similar-looking punctuation marks.