decodeunicode.org . decode . ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER BEN

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 small letter Ben occurs in 10th Century. Its horizontal stroke is on the line. The descender becomes sometimes a tail turned to the right. This feature is very marked for other letters with descender.
In 14th -19th Centuries the descender of arc atrophies and eventually disappears. The horizontal becomes much longer as the head, which is now parallel to it.

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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ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER BEN


01	CODE POINT VALUE: : : : :	0562
02	NAME (UNICODE NAME) : : :	ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER BEN
03	GENERAL CATEGORY: : : : :	Letter, Lowercase
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 SMALL LETTER BEN
12	ISO 10646 COMMENT FIELD :	-


13	UPPERCASE MAPPING : : : :	U+0532
14	LOWERCASE MAPPING : : : :	-
15	TITLECASE MAPPING : : : :	0532
16	DECIMAL VALUE : : : : : :	1378
17	UTF-8 HEX VALUE : : : : :	0xD5A2
18	UTF-16 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x0562
19	UTF-32 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x00000562
20	XHTML : : : : : : : : : :	&#1378
21	BLOCK : : : : : : : : : :	Armenian
22	PLANE : : : : : : : : : :	Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
23	STROKE NUMBER : : : : : :	-
24	RADICAL : : : : : : : : :	-