U+0706 "܆" Syriac Colon Skewed Left Unicode Character

U+0706 "܆" Syriac Colon Skewed Left is a punctuation mark used in the Syriac script, primarily within Syriac Orthodox and other liturgical texts to indicate a major break or pause, often functioning similarly to a period or a full stop in Western scripts. Its distinctive leftward slant distinguishes it from other Syriac colons and helps clarify the structure of sentences in classical Syriac writing, where it appears as a raised or angled dot pair. This character is encoded in the Syriac block of Unicode and supports the accurate digital representation of historical and modern Syriac manuscripts.