՚

՚ U+055A, ՚
ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE
ՙ
[U+0559]
Armenian ՛
[U+055B]

Armenian

Punctuation mark

՚

  1. Armenian apostrophe, ապաթարց (apatʿarcʿ)
    1. In Old Armenian placed before the preposition ի (i) to differentiate it from words starting with ի- (i-).
      ՚ի տուն’i tunto home
    2. In literary Western Armenian, replaces reduced vowels, especially in the case of the particles կը (), մը (), չի (čʿi).
      կ՚ասէk’asēsays
      չ’երթարčʿ’ertʿardoesn't go
    3. In transliterating European proper nouns with apostrophes, such as names with the particles d', O', transliterates the apostrophe.
      Ժաննա դ’ԱրկŽanna d’ArkJoan of Arc

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