U+0729 "ܩ" Syriac Letter Qaph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0729 "ܩ" Syriac Letter Qaph is the twentieth letter of the Syriac alphabet, representing the emphatic voiceless uvular plosive sound /q/, similar to the Arabic letter qāf. In the Syriac script, it is derived from the earlier Aramaic and Phoenician letter qoph, and its shape features a distinctive closed loop with a descending stroke. The letter is used in classical Syriac, as well as modern dialects like Assyrian and Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, serving both as a consonant in liturgical texts and in everyday writing. Its numeric value in the Semitic alphabetic numeral system is 100, reflecting its position and historical significance in the Semitic language family.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0729 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Qaph |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0729 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000729 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0729 |