U+0717 "ܗ" Syriac Letter He Unicode Character

U+0717 "ܗ" Syriac Letter He is the fifth letter of the Syriac alphabet, representing a glottal or voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, roughly equivalent to the English "h" in pronunciation. This character is used in writing the Syriac language, a dialect of Aramaic, and appears in both Eastern and Western Syriac scripts, where it also serves a numeric value of five in the Syriac numeral system. It functions as a key consonant in religious and literary texts, particularly within Syriac Christian traditions such as the Assyrian Church of the East and the Syriac Orthodox Church. The glyph’s shape varies slightly depending on the script style, with a distinctive loop or curve that distinguishes it from other letters.