Armenian (Unicode block)

Armenian
Range U+0530..U+058F
(96 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Armenian (90 char.)
Common (1 char.)
Major alphabets Classical Armenian (Grabar)
Western Armenian
Eastern (Reformed) Armenian
Assigned 91 code points
Unused 5 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 84 (+84)
1.1 85 (+1)
3.0 86 (+1)
6.1 87 (+1)
7.0 89 (+2)
11.0 91 (+2)

Note: [1][2]

Armenian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Armenian language, both the traditional Western Armenian and reformed Eastern Armenian orthographies. Five Armenian ligatures are encoded in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block.

Armenian[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
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 11.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+0531..0556, 0559..055F, 0561..0586, 058984(to be determined)
L2/17-315Golev, Yury; Anderson, Deborah (2017-09-07), Evidence of diaeresis in Armenian
L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2017-11-08), "C.5. Evidence of diaeresis in Armenian", UTC #153 Minutes
1.1U+05871(to be determined)
3.0U+058A1(to be determined)
6.1U+058F1L2/10-008RN3771Pentzlin, Karl (2010-02-10), Proposal to encode an Armenian Dram currency symbol
7.0U+058D..058E2L2/98-426N1981Armenian Comments on SC 2 N 3134, Application for Registration No.221, Armenian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange, 1998-12-16
L2/99-047N1984Suignard, Michel (1999-02-05), Encoding of the Armenian script in ISO/IEC 10646, answer to SC2 N3222
L2/10-133N3824Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646, 2010-04-19
L2/10-354N3924Everson, Michael (2010-09-24), Proposal to encode two symbols for Armenian
L2/10-372N3921Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4146, ISO/IEC CD 10646 (3rd Ed.), 2010-09-24
L2/10-373N3923Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-24), Proposal to add an Armenian Eternity Sign to the UCS
11.0U+0560, 05882L2/17-032N4806Baronian, Luc V. (2017-01-19), Armenian Phonetic Characters in Unicode
L2/17-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Hai, Liang; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "1. Armenian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-016Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "C.13", UTC #150 Minutes
L2/17-353Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "A. Armenian", WG2 Consent Docket
L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2017-11-08), "B.1.1.4", UTC #153 Minutes
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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