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Also known as Փ, փ, Armenian letter piwr, piwr (Armenian letter), Armenian letter p’iwr, p’iwr (Armenian letter), Armenian letter p’yowr, p’yowr (Armenian letter)

Pyur, Pyowr, Piwr, or '''P'ywr''' (uppercase: Փ, lowercase: փ; Armenian: փյուր; Classical Armenian: փիւր) 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 IPA 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. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a value of 8000 as an Armenian numeral.

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𓃻?
Grapheme.name
Pyur
Grapheme.letter
Փ փ
Grapheme.image
Փ handwritten.svg
Grapheme.imagesize
195px
Grapheme.script
Armenian script
Grapheme.type
Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc
ic
Grapheme.language
Armenian language
Grapheme.unicode
U+0553, U+0583
Grapheme.alphanumber
35
Grapheme.number
8000
Grapheme.usageperiod
405 to present
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20px|Qoph
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𐤒
Grapheme.fam4
Ϙ ϙ
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Φ φ

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Pyur, Pyowr, Piwr, or '''P'ywr''' (uppercase: Փ, lowercase: փ; Armenian: փյուր; Classical Armenian: փիւր) 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 IPA 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. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a value of 8000 as an Armenian numeral.

==Computing codes==

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