U+0704 "܄" Syriac Sublinear Colon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
܄
U+0704 "܄" Syriac Sublinear Colon is a diacritical mark used in the Syriac script, where it appears beneath a letter to indicate a pause or a break in speech, similar to a comma or a short stop in modern punctuation systems. It is part of the Syriac block of Unicode, which encodes characters necessary for writing the Syriac language and its liturgical dialects, such as Syriac and Assyrian Neo Aramaic. This sublinear colon is distinct from other Syriac punctuation because it is placed below the baseline, helping to structure text without interfering with the main consonantal line of writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0704 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Sublinear Colon |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0704 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000704 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0704 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Syriac |
| Script Extensions | Syriac |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |