U+071B "ܛ" Syriac Letter Teth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ܛ

U+071B "ܛ" Syriac Letter Teth is a letter from the Syriac alphabet, corresponding to the ninth letter in the Abjad order, where it represents the emphatic voiceless alveolar plosive sound /tˤ/ and holds the numerical value of 9 in the Syriac numeral system. Originating from the Aramaic script and tracing its graphical roots to the Phoenician letter Teth, it is used in Classical Syriac to write the consonant and appears as a distinct glyph in all three major Syriac script styles: Estrangela, Serto, and East Syriac. In the Unicode standard, this character typically has a rounded bowl-like shape with a small stroke or dot above it, distinguishing it from similar letters, and it is encoded in the Syriac block (U+0700 to U+074F) for use in digital texts representing the liturgical and literary language of Syriac Christianity.

General Properties

Code Point U+071B
Version Added 3.0
Name Syriac Letter Teth
Block Syriac
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ܛ
HTML Hex Encoding ܛ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xDC 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x071B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000071B
C/C++/Java Escape \u071b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Joining Group Teth
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Syriac
Script Extensions Syriac
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter