U+072B "ܫ" Syriac Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ܫ
U+072B "ܫ" Syriac Letter Shin is the twenty-second letter of the Syriac alphabet, representing the voiceless postalveolar fricative sound /ʃ/, similar to the English "sh" in "ship". It corresponds to the Hebrew letter Shin and the Arabic letter Sheen, and its distinctive shape, often featuring a curved top with a small tail, is used in all three major Syriac scripts including Estrangela, Eastern, and Western. In Syriac writing, this letter frequently serves as a shorthand symbol for the name of God, Yeshu (Jesus), due to its role as the first letter of the Syriac word for "Jesus" and is also employed in liturgical contexts and historical manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+072B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Shin |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x072B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000072B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u072b |