U+074D "ݍ" Syriac Letter Sogdian Zhain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ݍ
U+074D "ݍ" Syriac Letter Sogdian Zhain is a historical letter used in the Syriac script to represent a voiced postalveolar fricative, akin to the English 'zh' sound as in "azure," originating from the adaptation of the Syriac alphabet for writing the Sogdian language. This character is part of the Syriac block in Unicode and reflects the linguistic influence of Syriac script on Central Asian languages along the Silk Road, where Sogdian served as a lingua franca. Its inclusion in the standard helps preserve the textual heritage of ancient Sogdian manuscripts, which were pivotal for trade and cultural exchange between the Eastern and Western worlds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+074D |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Sogdian Zhain |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ݍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ݍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDD 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x074D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000074D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u074d |