U+070A "܊" Syriac Contraction Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
܊
U+070A "܊" Syriac Contraction is a typographic symbol used in the Syriac script to indicate an abbreviation or a contracted form of a word, often occurring in religious, liturgical, or scholarly manuscripts to save space or denote a familiar term. It resembles a small, stylized loop or knot and is distinct from punctuation marks, functioning solely as a scribal abbreviation within Syriac text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+070A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Contraction |
| 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 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x070A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000070A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u070a |
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 |