U+071A "ܚ" Syriac Letter Heth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+071A "ܚ" Syriac Letter Heth is a consonant in the Syriac alphabet, representing the voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound /ħ/, akin to the Hebrew letter Heth and the Arabic letter Ḥāʼ. It is used in writing various dialects of the Syriac language, including classical liturgical texts, as well as modern forms such as Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. Visually, the character resembles a closed loop with a connecting stroke, and its presence is integral to distinguishing vocabulary within the Syriac script, which is written from right to left.
General Properties
Code Point
U+071A
Name
Syriac Letter Heth
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ܚ
HTML Hex Encoding
ܚ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDC 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x071A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000071A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u071a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Syriac