U+072A "ܪ" Syriac Letter Rish Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+072A "ܪ" Syriac Letter Rish is a letter in the Syriac script that represents the sound "r" and corresponds to the twentieth letter of the Syriac alphabet, known as Rish or Resh. It is used in writing the Syriac language, a dialect of Middle Aramaic that serves as a liturgical language for several Eastern Christian churches, and it appears in historical manuscripts as well as modern digital text. Its shape varies slightly between the three major Syriac script styles—Estrangela, Eastern, and Western—but it consistently functions as a consonant. In its numeric value within the Syriac alphabetic numeral system, the letter Rish holds the value of 200.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+072A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Rish |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x072A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000072A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u072a |