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Glyph for U+0553
Source: Noto Sans Armenian

U+0553 Armenian Capital Letter Piwr

U+0553 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0530 to U+058F Armenian in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Armenian script. Its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0553 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Piwr, Pyowr, Pyur, or P'ywr (uppercase: Փ, lowercase: փ) is the 35th letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop (/pʰ/). Its capital form is homoglyphic to the Cyrillic letter Ef, the Greek letter Phi, and the symbol for the voiceless bilabial fricative. The lowercase form is the letter Tyun with two additional vertical lines jutting on the top and the bottom. It has a value of 8000 as an Armenian numeral.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 1363
UTF-8 D5 93
UTF-16 05 53
UTF-32 00 00 05 53
URL-Quoted %D5%93
HTML hex reference Փ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Õ“
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 30 EC 37
Adobe Glyph List Piwrarmenian

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER PIWR
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Armenian
General Category (gc) Uppercase Letter
Script (sc) Armenian
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0553 Armenian Capital Letter Piwr
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr
Uppercase (Upper) ✔
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0553 Armenian Capital Letter Piwr
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0553 Armenian Capital Letter Piwr
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0553 Armenian Capital Letter Piwr
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0553 Armenian Capital Letter Piwr
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✔
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✔
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0553 Armenian Capital Letter Piwr
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Upper
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0553 Armenian Capital Letter Piwr
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0583 Armenian Small Letter Piwr
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R