# Armenian (Unicode block)

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 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 |||||||||||||||||
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:
| 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) |
| 1.0.0 | U+0531..0556, 0559..055F, 0561..0586, 0589 | 84 | L2/17-315 | | Golev, Yury; Anderson, Deborah (2017-09-07), Evidence of diaeresis in Armenian |
| 1.0.0 | U+0531..0556, 0559..055F, 0561..0586, 0589 | 84 | 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 |
| 1.0.0 | U+0531..0556, 0559..055F, 0561..0586, 0589 | 84 | 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 |
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | | N1444 | Everson, Michael (1996-08-07), Proposed amendments to N 1395 - Armenian |
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | | N1446 | U.S. Position on Armenian (N 1395), 1996-08-09 |
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | | N1453 | Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "8.11", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31 |
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | | N1560 | Youatt, Richard (1997-05-16), Response on US feedback on Armenian |
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | L2/97-161 | N1616 | Suignard, Michel (1997-07-03), Armenian ad hoc report |
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | 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 |
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | L2/98-004R | N1681 | Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22 |
| 3.0 | U+058A | 1 | 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 |
| 6.1 | U+058F | 1 | L2/10-008R | N3771 | Pentzlin, Karl (2010-02-10), Proposal to encode an Armenian Dram currency symbol |
| 6.1 | U+058F | 1 | | N3824-SARM | SARM – Armenian NB Comments on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646) [Proposal for Armenian symbols], 2010-04-19 |
| 6.1 | U+058F | 1 | 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) |
| 6.1 | U+058F | 1 | | 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 |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | L2/99-047 | N1984 | Suignard, Michel (1999-02-05), Encoding of the Armenian script in ISO/IEC 10646, answer to SC2 N3222 |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | L2/99-054R | | Aliprand, Joan (1999-06-21), "Armenian", Approved Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Palo Alto, February 3-5, 1999 |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | 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 |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | L2/10-133 | N3824 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646, 2010-04-19 |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | | N3824-SARM | SARM – Armenian NB Comments on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646) [Proposal for Armenian symbols], 2010-04-19 |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | 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) |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | L2/10-354 | N3924 | Everson, Michael (2010-09-24), Proposal to encode two symbols for Armenian |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | L2/10-372 | N3921 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4146, ISO/IEC CD 10646 (3rd Ed.), 2010-09-24 |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | L2/10-373 | N3923 | Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-24), Proposal to add an Armenian Eternity Sign to the UCS |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | | N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | 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... |
| 7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | | 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 |
| 11.0 | U+0560, 0588 | 2 | 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 |
| 11.0 | U+0560, 0588 | 2 | L2/17-016 | | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "C.13", UTC #150 Minutes |
| 11.0 | U+0560, 0588 | 2 | | 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. |
| 11.0 | U+0560, 0588 | 2 | L2/17-353 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "A. Armenian", WG2 Consent Docket |
| 11.0 | U+0560, 0588 | 2 | L2/17-362 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C1", UTC #153 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||