U+0746 "݆" Syriac Three Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
݆
U+0746 "݆" Syriac Three Dots Below is a diacritical mark used in the Syriac script, specifically within certain liturgical or scholarly traditions to indicate a phonetic or grammatical modification of a base letter. This combining mark appears below a Syriac character, and its three dots can denote specific vowel qualities or adjustments in pronunciation, distinguishing it from the similar Syriac Two Dots Below. While not as commonly used as more standard Syriac diacritics, it serves as a precise typographic tool for representing the nuances of the Syriac language in religious texts or linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0746 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Three Dots Below |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ݆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ݆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDD 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0746 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000746 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0746 |