U+0745 "݅" Syriac Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
݅
U+0745 "݅" Syriac Three Dots Above is a diacritical mark used in the Syriac script, specifically within certain liturgical or scholarly contexts to modify the sound of a base letter by indicating a particular phonetic nuance, such as a softer pronunciation or a fricative quality. This mark appears as three distinct dots arranged horizontally above the Syriac consonant, and it is part of the Syriac Supplement block in Unicode, which supports the Estrangela, Eastern, and Western Syriac writing traditions. Its inclusion in the standard encoding ensures that digital texts can accurately represent specialized textual traditions where this diacritic is necessary for proper reading or recitation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0745 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Three Dots Above |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ݅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ݅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDD 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0745 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000745 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0745 |