U+072D "ܭ" Syriac Letter Persian Bheth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ܭ
U+072D "ܭ" Syriac Letter Persian Bheth is a grapheme used in the Syriac alphabet, specifically within the Eastern Syriac script employed for writing Middle Persian and other historical Iranian languages. It represents a voiced bilabial plosive sound similar to the English "b", modified from the standard Syriac Beth to accommodate Persian phonology. This character forms part of the Syriac block in Unicode, which preserves the letters of this ancient Semitic script for linguistic, historical, and liturgical purposes, particularly in texts from the Church of the East and related communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+072D |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Persian Bheth |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x072D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000072D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u072d |