The complete Armenian alphabet — 38 letters in upper and lower case, from Ա (ayb) to Ֆ (feh), each labeled with its traditional name, plus the և ligature used in reformed spelling. Click any letter to copy it, or copy a whole case set with one button.
All 38 capital letters in alphabetical order — the 36 letters Mesrop Mashtots created in 405 AD plus Օ and Ֆ, added in the Middle Ages. This is the full Unicode uppercase range; reformed Eastern Armenian counts 39 letters by also treating ու and և as letters of the alphabet.
The same 38 letters in lower case — Armenian lowercase letters are separate Unicode characters with their own distinctive shapes, not scaled-down capitals.
In reformed orthography և (yev) is treated as a letter in its own right — it writes the word "and" and the ev sound inside words. It has no uppercase form; capitalized it becomes Եվ.
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The Armenian alphabet was created in 405 AD by the monk and scholar Mesrop Mashtots, who designed 36 letters so precisely fitted to Armenian phonology that the script has needed almost no changes in 1,600 years. Two letters, Օ (o) and Ֆ (feh), were added in the Middle Ages to write new sounds and loanwords, bringing the standard inventory to the 38 letters on this page — the full Unicode range from Ա to Ֆ. Reformed Eastern Armenian spelling, used in the Republic of Armenia, also counts ու (u) and the ligature և (yev) as letters, which is why you sometimes see the alphabet cited as 39 letters.
All Armenian letters live in the Unicode Armenian block (U+0530–U+058F), and each case is a separate set of characters — lowercase shapes like ա, ձ, and ք are genuinely different designs, not shrunken capitals. The letters render correctly on Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X, and every modern phone and browser, so diaspora users regularly copy them for bios, usernames, and posts. The distinctive rounded forms also make single letters like Ա, Մ, and Ք popular as monogram-style initials in display names.
A few letters are worth knowing before you copy: Ւ (hiun) survives mainly in classical orthography, still used by the Western Armenian diaspora, and inside the digraph ու, which spells the u sound in every variety of Armenian. The ligature և fuses ե and ւ and writes the word եւ ("and") in a single glyph — it is one Unicode character (U+0587), not two letters, and it has no capital form. Armenian also has its own punctuation, including the full stop ։, which looks like a colon but is a different character.
Yes. Every character on this page is standard Unicode from the Armenian block (U+0530–U+058F), which all modern platforms and devices support. They display correctly in bios, captions, comments, and display names. Some services restrict account handles to Latin letters and numbers, in which case Armenian will paste but be rejected when you try to save.
All three counts are used. Mesrop Mashtots created 36 letters in 405 AD; Օ and Ֆ were added in the Middle Ages, giving the 38 letters this page lists. Reformed Eastern Armenian orthography also counts ու and the ligature և as letters, for a total of 39. Classical (Western) orthography sticks closer to the traditional inventory.
և (yev) is a ligature of ե and ւ that writes the word "and" and the ev sound inside words in reformed spelling. It is a single Unicode character, U+0587, with no uppercase counterpart — at the start of a sentence it is written as the two letters Եվ. If a font or platform cannot show it, paste the two-letter sequence եւ instead.
They are the two standard varieties of the language. Eastern Armenian is spoken in Armenia and Iran; Western Armenian is spoken across the diaspora. Both use the same 38 letters on this page — the differences are in pronunciation (several consonant pairs swap sounds) and in spelling conventions, with Western Armenian keeping the classical orthography.
Use the free online Armenian keyboard linked below — it gives you the standard Eastern Armenian layout in your browser with nothing to install. And if you just want to see how your name looks in the script, the Name in Armenian tool transliterates any name automatically by sound, letter combinations like ու included.