U+0867 "ࡧ" Syriac Letter Malayalam Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࡧ
U+0867 "ࡧ" Syriac Letter Malayalam Ra is a relatively recent addition to the Syriac script block, specifically included to transcribe the retroflex consonant [ɽ] found in Malayalam and other Dravidian languages, as the Syriac alphabet lacks a native character for this sound. This character was introduced in Unicode version 14.0 (2021) as part of a set of six letters designed to write Malayalam and Sanskrit in the Syriac script, historically used by the Syriac Christian communities in Kerala, India. It visually resembles a standard Syriac Rish but with a distinguishing diacritical mark, and its encoding ensures accurate digital representation of liturgical and historical texts that required this phonetic distinction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0867 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Malayalam Ra |
| Block | Syriac Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0867 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000867 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0867 |