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 (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: Template:Contains Armenian text

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.

Block

Armenian[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

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8

9

A

B

C

D

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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 16.0 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:

Version	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
			L2/17-362		Moore, Lisa (2017-11-08), "C.5. Evidence of diaeresis in Armenian", UTC #153 Minutes
1.1	U+0587	1			(to be determined)
3.0	U+058A	1			(to be determined)
6.1	U+058F	1	L2/10-008R	N3771	Pentzlin, Karl (2010-02-10), Proposal to encode an Armenian Dram currency symbol
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
			L2/10-133	N3824	Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646, 2010-04-19
			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
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; Hai, Liang; 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
			L2/17-353		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "A. Armenian", WG2 Consent Docket
			L2/17-362		Moore, Lisa (2017-11-08), "B.1.1.4", UTC #153 Minutes