Armenian (Unicode block)
Unicode character block
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Armenian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Armenian language, both the classical and reformed orthographies. Five Armenian ligatures are encoded in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block.
| Armenian | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0530..U+058F (96 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Armenian |
| Major alphabets | Armenian alphabet |
| Assigned | 94 code points |
| Unused | 2 reserved code points |
| Unicode Version History | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 84 (+84) |
| 1.1 (1993) | 85 (+1) |
| 3.0 (1999) | 86 (+1) |
| 6.1 (2012) | 87 (+1) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 89 (+2) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 91 (+2) |
| 18.0 (2026) | 94 (+3) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
| Armenian[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+053x | Ա | Բ | Գ | Դ | Ե | Զ | Է | Ը | Թ | Ժ | Ի | Լ | Խ | Ծ | Կ | |
| U+054x | Հ | Ձ | Ղ | Ճ | Մ | Յ | Ն | Շ | Ո | Չ | Պ | Ջ | Ռ | Ս | Վ | Տ |
| U+055x | Ր | Ց | Ւ | Փ | Ք | Օ | Ֆ | | ՙ | ՚ | ՛ | ՜ | ՝ | ՞ | ՟ | |
| U+056x | ՠ | ա | բ | գ | դ | ե | զ | է | ը | թ | ժ | ի | լ | խ | ծ | կ |
| U+057x | հ | ձ | ղ | ճ | մ | յ | ն | շ | ո | չ | պ | ջ | ռ | ս | վ | տ |
| U+058x | ր | ց | ւ | փ | ք | օ | ֆ | և | ֈ | ։ | ֊ | | | ֍ | ֎ | ֏ |
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
U+2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is preferred over U+055A ՚ ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE.[3] U+02BB ʻ MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA is preferred over U+0559 ՙ ARMENIAN MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING.[3]
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Armenian block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+0531..0556, 0559..055F, 0561..0586, 0589 | 84 | (to be determined) | ||
| L2/17-315 | Golev, Yury; Anderson, Deborah (2017-09-07), Evidence of diaeresis in Armenian | ||||
| L2/17-384 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-10-22), "4. Armenian", Recommendations to UTC #153 October 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "C.5. Evidence of diaeresis in Armenian", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
| 1.1 | U+0587 | 1 | (to be determined) | ||
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | N1395 | Youatt, Richard (1996-06-04), Armenian Repertoire Proposal Summary Form | |
| N1444 | Everson, Michael (1996-08-07), Proposed amendments to N 1395 - Armenian | ||||
| N1446 | U.S. Position on Armenian (N 1395), 1996-08-09 | ||||
| N1453 | Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "8.11", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31 | ||||
| N1560 | Youatt, Richard (1997-05-16), Response on US feedback on Armenian | ||||
| L2/97-161 | N1616 | Suignard, Michel (1997-07-03), Armenian ad hoc report | |||
| L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.23", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 | |||
| L2/98-004R | N1681 | Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22 | |||
| L2/98-318 | N1894 | Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22 | |||
| 6.1 | U+058F | 1 | L2/10-015R | Moore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "D.5", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes | |
| L2/10-008R | N3771 | Pentzlin, Karl (2010-02-10), Proposal to encode an Armenian Dram currency symbol | |||
| N3824-SARM | SARM – Armenian NB Comments on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646) [Proposal for Armenian symbols], 2010-04-19 | ||||
| L2/10-136 | N3827 | Suignard, Michel (2010-04-21), "Proposal to add DRAM SIGN", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4125 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646) | |||
| N3803 (pdf, doc) | "M56.08g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24 | ||||
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | L2/98-426 | N1981 | Armenian Comments on SC 2 N 3134, Application for Registration No.221, Armenian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange, 1998-12-16 |
| L2/99-047 | N1984 | Suignard, Michel (1999-02-05), Encoding of the Armenian script in ISO/IEC 10646, answer to SC2 N3222 | |||
| L2/99-054R | Aliprand, Joan (1999-06-21), "Armenian", Approved Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Palo Alto, February 3-5, 1999 | ||||
| L2/99-232 | N2003 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "7.2.1.5", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 | |||
| L2/10-133 | N3824 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646, 2010-04-19 | |||
| N3824-SARM | SARM – Armenian NB Comments on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646) [Proposal for Armenian symbols], 2010-04-19 | ||||
| L2/10-136 | N3827 | Suignard, Michel (2010-04-21), "Proposal to add ETERNITY SIGN", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4125 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646) | |||
| L2/10-354 | N3924 | Everson, Michael (2010-09-24), Proposal to encode two symbols for Armenian | |||
| L2/10-372 | N3921 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4146, ISO/IEC CD 10646 (3rd Ed.), 2010-09-24 | |||
| L2/10-373 | N3923 | Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-24), Proposal to add an Armenian Eternity Sign to the UCS | |||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| L2/11-261R2 | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C29", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, Approve revised code points for the two Armenian eternity signs... | ||||
| N4103 | "T.3. Miscellaneous Pictographic Symbols", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+0560, 0588 | 2 | L2/17-032 | N4806 | Baronian, Luc V. (2017-01-19), Armenian Phonetic Characters in Unicode |
| L2/17-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "1. Armenian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-016 | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "C.13", UTC #150 Minutes | ||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23, 058B ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER TURNED AYB is moved to 0560, and 058C ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER YI WITH STROKE is moved to 0588. | ||||
| L2/17-353 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "A. Armenian", WG2 Consent Docket | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C1", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
| 18.0 | U+0558, 058B..058C | 3 | L2/24-107 | Dolatian, Hossep (2024-04-16), Revised: Proposal to encode three Armenian superscript characters | |
| L2/24-068 | Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-04-18), "2. Armenian", Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/24-061 | Constable, Peter (2024-04-29), "Consensus 179-C46", UTC #179 Minutes, Provisionally assign 3 Armenian superscript code points ... | ||||
| L2/25-226 | "Consensus 185-C40", UTC #185 Minutes, 2025-10-29, UTC accepts for encoding in Unicode 18.0 ... | ||||
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