U+0706 "܆" Syriac Colon Skewed Left Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
܆
U+0706 "܆" Syriac Colon Skewed Left is a punctuation mark used in the Syriac script, primarily within Syriac Orthodox and other liturgical texts to indicate a major break or pause, often functioning similarly to a period or a full stop in Western scripts. Its distinctive leftward slant distinguishes it from other Syriac colons and helps clarify the structure of sentences in classical Syriac writing, where it appears as a raised or angled dot pair. This character is encoded in the Syriac block of Unicode and supports the accurate digital representation of historical and modern Syriac manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0706 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Colon Skewed Left |
| 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 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0706 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000706 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0706 |
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 |