U+0725 "ܥ" Syriac Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0725 "ܥ" Syriac Letter E is a grapheme from the Syriab script, an abjad used primarily for liturgical and literary purposes by various Christian denominations in the Middle East. This specific character, known as "E" or "ʿĀp̱" in Syriac, represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, akin to the Arabic letter ʿayn. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under Block Code Syriac, which spans U+0700 to U+074F, and serves as a fundamental component in writing the Syriac language, including its classical, Western, and Eastern dialects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0725 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter E |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0725 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000725 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0725 |