Pyur (Armenian letter)

Piwr, Pyowr, Pyur, or P'ywr (uppercase: Փ, lowercase: փ) is the 35th letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop (/pʰ/). Its capital form is homoglyphic to the Cyrillic letter Ef, the Greek letter Phi, and the symbol for the voiceless bilabial fricative. The lowercase form is the letter Tyun with two additional vertical lines jutting on the top and the bottom. It has a value of 8000 as an Armenian numeral.

Pyur
Փ փ
Usage
Writing systemArmenian script
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originArmenian language
Phonetic usage
Unicode codepointU+553, U+583
Alphabetical position35
Numerical value: 8000
History
Development
  • Փ փ
Time period405 to present
Other
Associated numbers8000
Writing directionLeft-to-Right

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewՓփ
Unicode name ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER PIWR ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER PIWR
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode1363U+05531411U+0583
UTF-8213 147D5 93214 131D6 83
Numeric character referenceՓՓփփ

See also

References

  • Փ on Wiktionary
  • փ on Wiktionary
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