U+0723 "ܣ" Syriac Letter Semkath Unicode Character

U+0723 "ܣ" Syriac Letter Semkath is a letter in the Syriac alphabet, representing the fifteenth letter and corresponding to the Phoenician and Hebrew samekh, with a phonetic value of a voiceless alveolar fricative /s/. This character is typically used in both the Eastern (Madnhaya) and Western (Serto) scripts of the Syriac language, though its visual form can differ slightly between those traditions, such as being more angular in the Estrangela style. In the context of Syriac writing, Semkath is employed in the transcription of words from Aramaic, Syriac, and other related languages, and it also holds a numeric value of 60 in the Syriac numerical system based on letter order.