U+074F "ݏ" Syriac Letter Sogdian Fe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+074F "ݏ" Syriac Letter Sogdian Fe is a grapheme used in the Syriac script to represent a sound borrowed from the Sogdian language, specifically the consonant /f/ which does not occur natively in classical Syriac phonology. This letter sits within the Syriac block of Unicode and serves as a historical and linguistic artifact, reflecting the influence of Sogdian on Syriac writing systems, particularly in contexts where Syriac was adapted to record languages of Central Asia. It is encoded for scholarly use in digital texts to accurately transcribe ancient manuscripts and inscriptions that employ this modified Syriac alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+074F |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Sogdian Fe |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ݏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ݏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDD 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x074F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000074F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u074f |