U+071A "ܚ" Syriac Letter Heth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+071A "ܚ" Syriac Letter Heth is a consonant in the Syriac alphabet, representing the voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound /ħ/, akin to the Hebrew letter Heth and the Arabic letter Ḥāʼ. It is used in writing various dialects of the Syriac language, including classical liturgical texts, as well as modern forms such as Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. Visually, the character resembles a closed loop with a connecting stroke, and its presence is integral to distinguishing vocabulary within the Syriac script, which is written from right to left.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+071A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Heth |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x071A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000071A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u071a |