U+0561 Armenian Small Letter Ayb
U+0561 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Armenian script. It is related to its uppercase variant
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. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0561 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ayb (majuscule: Ա; minuscule: ա; Armenian: այբ) is the first letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 1. It represents the open back unrounded vowel (/ɑ/) in both variants of the Armenian language. This letter and the letter Ben (Բ բ) are the two first letters in the Armenian alphabet and forms the etymology of the Armenian word այբուբեն (aybuben), meaning "alphabet." It is one of the letters originally created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century.
It is homoglyphic to the IPA symbol for the close back unrounded vowel, the Cyrillic letter Sha (Шш), the former Zhuang letter Ɯɯ used from 1957 to 1986, and the Nushkuri form of the Georgian letter oni (ⴍ).
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1377 |
UTF-8 | D5 A1 |
UTF-16 | 05 61 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 61 |
URL-Quoted | %D5%A1 |
HTML hex reference | ա |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Õ¡ |
Adobe Glyph List | aybarmenian |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER AYB | |
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Armenian | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Armenian | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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Any | |
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0 | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Lower | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
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Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
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not a number | |
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R |