Armenian (Unicode block)

Armenian
Range	U+0530..U+058F (96 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Armenian
Major alphabets	Armenian alphabet
Assigned	91 code points
Unused	5 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)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

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.

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 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

U+2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is preferred over U+055A ՚ ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE. U+02BB ʻ MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA is preferred over U+0559 ՙ ARMENIAN MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Armenian block:

hideVersion	Final code points	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