U+072C "ܬ" Syriac Letter Taw Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+072C "ܬ" Syriac Letter Taw is the final letter in the Syriac alphabet, representing the consonant sound /t/ or /θ/ depending on its diacritical markings and dialect. It originates from the Aramaic script and holds significant historical importance, as its shape has evolved from earlier Semitic writing systems, including its Phoenician ancestor. In Syriac orthography, this letter appears in various forms across the three major scripts Estrangela, Serto, and East Syriac, and it is frequently used in liturgical texts, where it can also serve numerically as the number 400 in the alphabetic numeral system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+072C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Taw |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x072C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000072C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u072c |