U+0727 "ܧ" Syriac Letter Reversed Pe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0727 "ܧ" Syriac Letter Reversed Pe is a grapheme used in the Syriac script, primarily associated with historical or liturgical contexts. It represents a variant of the letter Pe, distinguished by its reversed orientation, and is employed in certain Syriac dialects or orthographic traditions to denote a specific phonetic value, often reflecting a voiceless bilabial or labiodental sound. While not as common in modern usage, this character remains part of the Syriac block in Unicode to support textual accuracy in manuscripts and scholarly works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0727 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Reversed Pe |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0727 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000727 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0727 |