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Glyph for U+055B
Source: Noto Sans Armenian

U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark

U+055B was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 Other Punctuation and is mainly used in the Armenian script. The character is also known as shesht.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+055B behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Armenian alphabet (Armenian: Հայոց գրեր, Hayots' grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayots' aybuben; Eastern Armenian: [haˈjotsʰ ajbuˈbɛn]; Western Armenian: [haˈjotsʰ ajpʰuˈpʰɛn]) is an alphabetic writing system used to write Armenian. It was developed around 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader. The system originally had 36 letters; eventually, three more were adopted. The alphabet was also in wide use in the Ottoman Empire around the 18th and 19th centuries. The Armenian word for "alphabet" is այբուբեն (aybuben), named after the first two letters of the Armenian alphabet: ⟨Ա⟩ Armenian: այբ ayb and ⟨Բ⟩ Armenian: բեն ben. Armenian is written horizontally, left to right.

Representations

System Representation
1371
UTF-8 D5 9B
UTF-16 05 5B
UTF-32 00 00 05 5B
URL-Quoted %D5%9B
HTML hex reference ՛
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Õ›
alias shesht
Adobe Glyph List emphasismarkarmenian

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name ARMENIAN EMPHASIS MARK
Unicode 1 Name
Block Armenian
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Armenian
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Case Folding Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
Ideographic
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+055B Armenian Emphasis Mark
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R