U+057A "պ" Armenian Small Letter Peh Unicode Character

U+057A "պ" Armenian Small Letter Peh is the lowercase form of the fifteenth letter in the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiceless bilabial plosive sound [p] in Eastern and Western Armenian. Its uppercase counterpart is U+054A "Պ" Armenian Capital Letter Peh, and the letter's numerical value in the traditional Armenian numeral system is 500. In standard Armenian typography, "պ" is visually characterized by a looped upper section and a vertical stem, reflecting its historical evolution from the Greek letter Pi. This character is used in written Armenian across both classical and modern contexts, appearing in religious texts, literature, and everyday communication, and it has been part of the Unicode Standard since version 1.1 in 1993.