U+071F "ܟ" Syriac Letter Kaph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+071F "ܟ" Syriac Letter Kaph is a consonant in the Syriac abjad, representing the sound /k/ and serving as the eleventh letter of the Syriac alphabet. It is derived from the Phoenician letter Kaph and holds a numeric value of 20 in the Syriac numeral system. This character appears in the classical Estrangela, Eastern, and Western script varieties, and its shape can vary depending on position within a word, including an initial, medial, final, or isolated form, reflecting the cursive nature of the Syriac writing system developed for liturgical and literary use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+071F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Kaph |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x071F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000071F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u071f |