What ՙ means
No—Unicode 17.0 lists no Armenian use for ՙ. For Armenian transliteration, use the turned comma ʻ .
A Unicode review in April 2022 cited a half-ring or turned apostrophe in a book on Armenian dialects and called for further research. That mention is a lead, not proof of an established Armenian convention.
A specialist Unicode lookup, not a standard mark for writing Armenian.
Its Armenian-sounding name alone does not establish Armenian use.
Who writes ՙ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ՙ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ՙ
- Search it as
- ՙ · U+0559 · Armenian transliteration mark · turned comma · U+02BB · left half ring · Unicode modifier letter · Armenian punctuation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
ՙCSS
\0559Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ՙ
HTML hex
ՙ
CSS content
content: "\0559";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%D5%99
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.