U+071B "ܛ" Syriac Letter Teth Unicode Character

U+071B "ܛ" Syriac Letter Teth is a letter from the Syriac alphabet, corresponding to the ninth letter in the Abjad order, where it represents the emphatic voiceless alveolar plosive sound /tˤ/ and holds the numerical value of 9 in the Syriac numeral system. Originating from the Aramaic script and tracing its graphical roots to the Phoenician letter Teth, it is used in Classical Syriac to write the consonant and appears as a distinct glyph in all three major Syriac script styles: Estrangela, Serto, and East Syriac. In the Unicode standard, this character typically has a rounded bowl-like shape with a small stroke or dot above it, distinguishing it from similar letters, and it is encoded in the Syriac block (U+0700 to U+074F) for use in digital texts representing the liturgical and literary language of Syriac Christianity.