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<h2 id="unicode-chart">Unicode chart</h2> <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Syriac[1][2]<a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0700.pdf">Official Unicode Consortium code chart</a> (PDF)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>U+070x</td><td>܀</td><td>܁</td><td>܂</td><td>܃</td><td>܄</td><td>܅</td><td>܆</td><td>܇</td><td>܈</td><td>܉</td><td>܊</td><td>܋</td><td>܌</td><td>܍</td><td></td><td>SAM</td></tr><tr><td>U+071x</td><td>ܐ</td><td>ܑ</td><td>ܒ</td><td>ܓ</td><td>ܔ</td><td>ܕ</td><td>ܖ</td><td>ܗ</td><td>ܘ</td><td>ܙ</td><td>ܚ</td><td>ܛ</td><td>ܜ</td><td>ܝ</td><td>ܞ</td><td>ܟ</td></tr><tr><td>U+072x</td><td>ܠ</td><td>ܡ</td><td>ܢ</td><td>ܣ</td><td>ܤ</td><td>ܥ</td><td>ܦ</td><td>ܧ</td><td>ܨ</td><td>ܩ</td><td>ܪ</td><td>ܫ</td><td>ܬ</td><td>ܭ</td><td>ܮ</td><td>ܯ</td></tr><tr><td>U+073x</td><td>ܰ</td><td>ܱ</td><td>ܲ</td><td>ܳ</td><td>ܴ</td><td>ܵ</td><td>ܶ</td><td>ܷ</td><td>ܸ</td><td>ܹ</td><td>ܺ</td><td>ܻ</td><td>ܼ</td><td>ܽ</td><td>ܾ</td><td>ܿ</td></tr><tr><td>U+074x</td><td>݀</td><td>݁</td><td>݂</td><td>݃</td><td>݄</td><td>݅</td><td>݆</td><td>݇</td><td>݈</td><td>݉</td><td>݊</td><td></td><td></td><td>ݍ</td><td>ݎ</td><td>ݏ</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17">Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Syriac block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_JTC_1%2fSC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="19">3.0</td><td rowspan="19">U+0700..070D, 070F..072C, 0730..074A</td><td rowspan="19">71</td><td>L2/97-130</td><td></td><td>McGowan, R. (1997-02-24), <i>The Unicode draft proposal for Syriac character encoding</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/98-051</td><td></td><td>Nelson, Paul; <a href="/facts/George_Kiraz/phS9uHAv">Kiraz, George</a> (1998-02-23), <i>Supporting letters for Encoding Syriac</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/98-052</td><td></td><td>Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George (1998-02-23), <i>Examples of Syriac</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98070.pdf">L2/98-070</a></td><td></td><td>Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.2. item a. Syriac script", <i>Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98069.pdf">L2/98-069</a></td><td></td><td>Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George (1998-02-27), <i>Presentation to support the coding of Syriac</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98050-syriac-proposal.pdf">L2/98-050</a></td><td>N1718</td><td>Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George; Hasso, Sargon (1998-03-06), <i>Proposal to Encode Syriac in ISO/IEC 10646</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/98-156</td><td></td><td>Kiraz, George, <i>Syriac: Unicode character properties</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98158.html">L2/98-158</a></td><td></td><td>Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), "Character Properties for Syriac Script", <i>Draft Minutes – UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/98-286</td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1703w97.doc">N1703</a></td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.23", <i>Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1837.doc">N1837</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1837syriacireland.pdf">N1837-Ireland</a></td><td><i>Summary of Voting/Table of Replies - Amendment 27 - Syriac</i>, 1998-08-27</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/02n3196.pdf">L2/98-322</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1907_02n3196_fpdam27_syriac.pdf">N1907</a></td><td><i>ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM. 27, AMENDMENT 27: Syriac</i>, 1998-10-22</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1906_02n3195_dofc_syriac.doc">N1906</a></td><td>Paterson, Bruce; <a href="/facts/Michael_Everson/8Se2cLdz">Everson, Michael</a> (1998-10-22), <i>Disposition of Comments - FPDAM27 - Syriac</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/n1903.rtf">L2/99-010</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903.pdf">N1903 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903.htm">html</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903w97.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "6.7.10", <i>Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01118-WAW.txt">L2/01-118</a></td><td></td><td>Whistler, Ken; Cimarosti, Marco (2001-03-13), <i>Joining group "WAW"</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10439-sam-bidi-class.pdf">L2/10-439</a></td><td></td><td>Pournader, Roozbeh; <a href="/facts/Behdad_Esfahbod/ns4AbK5H">Esfahbod, Behdad</a> (2010-10-27), <i>Refixing the bidi class for U+070F SYRIAC ABBREVIATION MARK</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11286-syriac-shaping.txt">L2/11-286</a></td><td></td><td>Esfahbod, Behdad (2011-07-21), <i>Syriac shaping fixes and clarifications</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12050-syriac.pdf">L2/12-050</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah (2012-01-30), <i>Glyph erratum for U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12188-syriac.pdf">L2/12-188</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4272.pdf">N4272</a></td><td>Anderson, Deborah (2012-05-08), <i>Naming error for U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12112.htm">L2/12-112</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "Consensus 131-C20", <i>UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes</i>, Approve a formal name alias for U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT of "SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED LEFT", for Unicode 6.2.</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="5">4.0</td><td rowspan="5">U+072D..072F, 074D..074F</td><td rowspan="5">6</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01007-iran.txt">L2/01-007</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Manichaean and Christian Sogdian Scripts", <i>Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02009-iranian.pdf">L2/02-009</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Christian Sogdian written in Syriac script(s)", <i>2nd Iranian Meeting Report</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02132-N2422-syrian.pdf">L2/02-132</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2422.pdf">N2422</a></td><td>Everson, Michael (2002-03-30), <i>Proposal to add six Syriac letters for Sogdian and Persian to the UCS</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02185-nelson.txt">L2/02-185</a></td><td></td><td>Nelson, Paul (2002-05-01), <i>E-mail from Paul Nelson re Sogdian Issues</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02405-n2509-sogdian.pdf">L2/02-405</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2509.pdf">N2509</a></td><td>Everson, Michael; <a href="/facts/Nicholas_Sims-Williams/o1BHJljR">Sims-Williams, Nicholas</a> (2002-11-04), <i>Shaping behaviour of six Syriac letters for Sogdian and Persian</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="character-list">Character list</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Code</th><th>Result</th><th>Description</th></tr><tr><th colspan="3">Punctuation</th></tr><tr><td>U+0700</td><td>܀</td><td>Syriac End of Paragraph</td></tr><tr><td>U+0701</td><td>܁</td><td>Syriac Supralinear Full Stop</td></tr><tr><td>U+0702</td><td>܂</td><td>Syriac Sublinear Full Stop</td></tr><tr><td>U+0703</td><td>܃</td><td>Syriac Supralinear Colon</td></tr><tr><td>U+0704</td><td>܄</td><td>Syriac Sublinear Colon</td></tr><tr><td>U+0705</td><td>܅</td><td>Syriac Horizontal Colon</td></tr><tr><td>U+0706</td><td>܆</td><td>Syriac Colon skewed left</td></tr><tr><td>U+0707</td><td>܇</td><td>Syriac Colon skewed right</td></tr><tr><td>U+0708</td><td>܈</td><td>Syriac Supralinear Colon skewed left</td></tr><tr><td>U+0709</td><td>܉</td><td>Syriac Sublinear Colon skewed right</td></tr><tr><td>U+070A</td><td>܊</td><td>Syriac Contraction</td></tr><tr><td>U+070B</td><td>܋</td><td>Syriac Harklean Obelus</td></tr><tr><td>U+070C</td><td>܌</td><td>Syriac Harklean Metobelus</td></tr><tr><td>U+070D</td><td>܍</td><td>Syriac Harklean Asteriscus</td></tr><tr><td>U+070F</td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Syriac_Abbreviation_Mark/jbBMX1qT">Syriac Abbreviation Mark</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="3">Letters</th></tr><tr><td>U+0710</td><td>ܐ</td><td>Syriac Letter Alaph</td></tr><tr><td>U+0711</td><td>ܑ</td><td>Syriac Letter Superscript Alaph</td></tr><tr><td>U+0712</td><td>ܒ</td><td>Syriac Letter Beth</td></tr><tr><td>U+0713</td><td>ܓ</td><td>Syriac Letter Gamal</td></tr><tr><td>U+0714</td><td>ܔ</td><td>Syriac Letter Gamal Garshuni</td></tr><tr><td>U+0715</td><td>ܕ</td><td>Syriac Letter Dalath</td></tr><tr><td>U+0716</td><td>ܖ</td><td>Syriac Letter Dotless Dalath Rish</td></tr><tr><td>U+0717</td><td>ܗ</td><td>Syriac Letter He</td></tr><tr><td>U+0718</td><td>ܘ</td><td>Syriac Letter Waw</td></tr><tr><td>U+0719</td><td>ܙ</td><td>Syriac Letter Zain</td></tr><tr><td>U+071A</td><td>ܚ</td><td>Syriac Letter Heth</td></tr><tr><td>U+071B</td><td>ܛ</td><td>Syriac Letter Teth</td></tr><tr><td>U+071C</td><td>ܜ</td><td>Syriac Letter Teth Garshuni</td></tr><tr><td>U+071D</td><td>ܝ</td><td>Syriac Letter Yudh</td></tr><tr><td>U+071E</td><td>ܞ</td><td>Syriac Letter Yudh He</td></tr><tr><td>U+071F</td><td>ܟ</td><td>Syriac Letter Kaph</td></tr><tr><td>U+0720</td><td>ܠ</td><td>Syriac Letter Lamadh</td></tr><tr><td>U+0721</td><td>ܡ</td><td>Syriac Letter Mim</td></tr><tr><td>U+0722</td><td>ܢ</td><td>Syriac Letter Nun</td></tr><tr><td>U+0723</td><td>ܣ</td><td>Syriac Letter Semkath</td></tr><tr><td>U+0724</td><td>ܤ</td><td>Syriac Letter Final Semkath</td></tr><tr><td>U+0725</td><td>ܥ</td><td>Syriac Letter E</td></tr><tr><td>U+0726</td><td>ܦ</td><td>Syriac Letter Pe</td></tr><tr><td>U+0727</td><td>ܧ</td><td>Syriac Letter Reversed Pe</td></tr><tr><td>U+0728</td><td>ܨ</td><td>Syriac Letter Sadhe</td></tr><tr><td>U+0729</td><td>ܩ</td><td>Syriac Letter Qaph</td></tr><tr><td>U+072A</td><td>ܪ</td><td>Syriac Letter Rish</td></tr><tr><td>U+072B</td><td>ܫ</td><td>Syriac Letter Shin</td></tr><tr><td>U+072C</td><td>ܬ</td><td>Syriac Letter Taw</td></tr><tr><td>U+072D</td><td>ܭ</td><td>Syriac Letter Persian Bheth</td></tr><tr><td>U+072E</td><td>ܮ</td><td>Syriac Letter Persian Ghamal</td></tr><tr><td>U+072F</td><td>ܯ</td><td>Syriac Letter Persian Dhalath</td></tr><tr><td>U+074D</td><td>ݍ</td><td>Syriac Letter Sogdian Zhain</td></tr><tr><td>U+074E</td><td>ݎ</td><td>Syriac Letter Sogdian Khaph</td></tr><tr><td>U+074F</td><td>ݏ</td><td>Syriac Letter Sogdian Fe</td></tr><tr><th colspan="3">Diacritics</th></tr><tr><td>U+0730</td><td>ܰ</td><td>Syriac Pthaha Above</td></tr><tr><td>U+0731</td><td>ܱ</td><td>Syriac Pthaha Below</td></tr><tr><td>U+0732</td><td>ܲ</td><td>Syriac Pthaha Dotted</td></tr><tr><td>U+0733</td><td>ܳ</td><td>Syriac Zqapha Above</td></tr><tr><td>U+0734</td><td>ܴ</td><td>Syriac Zqapha Below</td></tr><tr><td>U+0735</td><td>ܵ</td><td>Syriac Zqapha Dotted</td></tr><tr><td>U+0736</td><td>ܶ</td><td>Syriac Rbasa Above</td></tr><tr><td>U+0737</td><td>ܷ</td><td>Syriac Rbasa Below</td></tr><tr><td>U+0738</td><td>ܸ</td><td>Syriac Dotted Zlama Horizontal</td></tr><tr><td>U+0739</td><td>ܹ</td><td>Syriac Dotted Zlama Angular</td></tr><tr><td>U+073A</td><td>ܺ</td><td>Syriac Hbasa Above</td></tr><tr><td>U+073B</td><td>ܻ</td><td>Syriac Hbasa Below</td></tr><tr><td>U+073C</td><td>ܼ</td><td>Syriac Hbasa-Esata Dotted</td></tr><tr><td>U+073D</td><td>ܽ</td><td>Syriac Esasa Above</td></tr><tr><td>U+073E</td><td>ܾ</td><td>Syriac Esasa Below</td></tr><tr><td>U+073F</td><td>ܿ</td><td>Syriac Rwaha</td></tr><tr><td>U+0740</td><td>݀</td><td>Syriac Feminine Dot</td></tr><tr><td>U+0741</td><td>݁</td><td>Syriac Qushshaya</td></tr><tr><td>U+0742</td><td>݂</td><td>Syriac Rukkakha</td></tr><tr><td>U+0743</td><td>݃</td><td>Syriac Two Vertical Dots Above</td></tr><tr><td>U+0744</td><td>݄</td><td>Syriac Two Vertical Dots Below</td></tr><tr><td>U+0745</td><td>݅</td><td>Syriac Three Dots Above</td></tr><tr><td>U+0746</td><td>݆</td><td>Syriac Three Dots Below</td></tr><tr><td>U+0747</td><td>݇</td><td>Syriac Oblique Line Above</td></tr><tr><td>U+0748</td><td>݈</td><td>Syriac Oblique Line Below</td></tr><tr><td>U+0749</td><td>݉</td><td>Syriac Music</td></tr><tr><td>U+074A</td><td>݊</td><td>Syriac Barrekh</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>