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 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

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 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
			L2/17-384		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