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EDIT Ben/Բեն is the second letter of Armenian alphabet. There are only few variations of its form. Merely the length of the horizontal stroke was varied. The oldest forms of it have an elongated horizontal stroke with a small descender at its end.

The form of Capital Letter Ben witnessed between 10th -13th Centuries is slanted to the right. The arc is less marked, quite horizontal and ends with a small descender.

Ben is pronounced in western Armenian as [pʰɛn] / [pʰ], and in classical / eastern Armenian as Latin B.

The numerical value of Ben is 2.
The biblical Name of ben is Բովանդակ/Content.

Sources:
Album of Armenian Paleography
Michael E. Stone, Dickran Kouymijan, Henning Lehmann
Aarhus University Press 2002

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U+0562
ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER BEN


01	CODE POINT VALUE: : : : :	0532
02	NAME (UNICODE NAME) : : :	ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER BEN
03	GENERAL CATEGORY: : : : :	Letter, Uppercase
04	COMBINING CLASS : : : : :	Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined
05	BIDIRECTIONAL CATEGORY: :	Left-to-Right
06	DECOMPOSITION MAPPING : :	-
07	DECIMAL DIGIT VALUE : : :	-
08	DIGIT VALUE : : : : : : :	-
09	NUMERIC VALUE : : : : : :	-
10	MIRRORED: : : : : : : : :	No
11	UNICODE 1.0 NAME: : : : :	ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER BEN
12	ISO 10646 COMMENT FIELD :	-


13	UPPERCASE MAPPING : : : :	-
14	LOWERCASE MAPPING : : : :	U+0562
15	TITLECASE MAPPING : : : :	-
16	DECIMAL VALUE : : : : : :	1330
17	UTF-8 HEX VALUE : : : : :	0xD4B2
18	UTF-16 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x0532
19	UTF-32 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x00000532
20	XHTML : : : : : : : : : :	&#1330
21	BLOCK : : : : : : : : : :	Armenian
22	PLANE : : : : : : : : : :	Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
23	STROKE NUMBER : : : : : :	-
24	RADICAL : : : : : : : : :	-