Syriac (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Syriac

Range| U+0700..U+074F
(80 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Syriac
Major alphabets| Estrangela
Serto or West Syriac
Eastern Syriac
Garshuni (Arabic)
Neo-Aramaic
Assigned| 77 code points
Unused| 3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0| 71 (+71)
4.0| 77 (+6)
Note: [1][2]

Syriac is a Unicode block containing characters for all forms of the Syriac alphabet, including the Estrangela, Serto, Eastern Syriac, and the Christian Palestinian Aramaic variants. It is used in Literary Syriac, Neo-Aramaic, and Arabic among Syriac-speaking Christians. It was used historically to write Armenian, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Malayalam.

Additional Syriac letters used for writing the Malayalam language are encoded in the Syriac Supplement block.

## Contents

* 1 Unicode chart
* 2 History
* 3 Character list
* 4 References

## Unicode chart

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Syriac block:

Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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3.0 | U+0700..070D, 070F..072C, 0730..074A | 71 | L2/97-130 |  | McGowan, R. (1997-02-24), The Unicode draft proposal for Syriac character encoding
L2/98-052 |  | Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George (1998-02-23), Examples of Syriac
L2/98-070 |  | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
L2/98-069 |  | Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George (1998-02-27), Presentation to support the coding of Syriac
L2/98-050 | N1718 | Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George; Hasso, Sargon (1998-03-06), Proposal to Encode Syriac in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/98-156 |  | Kiraz, George, Syriac: Unicode character properties
L2/98-158 |  | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), Draft Minutes - UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998
L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
| N1837, N1837-Ireland |  Summary of Voting/Table of Replies - Amendment 27 - Syriac, 1998-08-27
L2/98-322 | N1907 |  ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM. 27, AMENDMENT 27: Syriac, 1998-10-22
L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/01-118 |  | Whistler, Ken; Cimarosti, Marco (2001-03-13), Joining group "WAW"
L2/11-286 |  | Esfahbod, Behdad (2011-07-21), Syriac shaping fixes and clarifications
L2/12-050 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2012-01-30), Glyph erratum for U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT
L2/12-188 | N4272 | Anderson, Deborah (2012-05-08), Naming error for U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT
L2/12-112 |  | Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes, "Approve a formal name alias for U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT of "SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED LEFT", for Unicode 6.2."
4.0 | U+072D..072F, 074D..074F | 6 | L2/01-007 |  | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009 |  | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
L2/02-132 | N2422 | Everson, Michael (2002-03-30), Proposal to add six Syriac letters for Sogdian and Persian to the UCS
L2/02-185 |  | Nelson, Paul (2002-05-01), E-mail from Paul Nelson re Sogdian Issues

1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

## Character list

Code  | Result  | Description

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Punctuation
U+0700  | ܀  | Syriac End of Paragraph
U+0701  | ܁  | Syriac Supralinear Full Stop
U+0702  | ܂  | Syriac Sublinear Full Stop
U+0703  | ܃  | Syriac Supralinear Colon
U+0704  | ܄  | Syriac Sublinear Colon
U+0705  | ܅  | Syriac Horizontal Colon
U+0706  | ܆  | Syriac Colon skewed left
U+0707  | ܇  | Syriac Colon skewed right
U+0708  | ܈  | Syriac Supralinear Colon skewed left
U+0709  | ܉  | Syriac Sublinear Colon skewed right
U+070A  | ܊  | Syriac Contraction
U+070B  | ܋  | Syriac Harklean Obelus
U+070C  | ܌  | Syriac Harklean Metobelus
U+070D  | ܍  | Syriac Harklean Asteriscus
U+070F  | ܏  | Syriac Abbreviation Mark
Letters
U+0710  | ܐ  | Syriac Letter Alaph
U+0711  | ܑ  | Syriac Letter Superscript Alaph
U+0712  | ܒ  | Syriac Letter Beth
U+0713  | ܓ  | Syriac Letter Gamal
U+0714  | ܔ  | Syriac Letter Gamal Garshuni
U+0715  | ܕ  | Syriac Letter Dalath
U+0716  | ܖ  | Syriac Letter Dotless Dalath Rish
U+0717  | ܗ  | Syriac Letter He
U+0718  | ܘ  | Syriac Letter Waw
U+0719  | ܙ  | Syriac Letter Zain
U+071A  | ܚ  | Syriac Letter Heth
U+071B  | ܛ  | Syriac Letter Teth
U+071C  | ܜ  | Syriac Letter Teth Garshuni
U+071D  | ܝ  | Syriac Letter Yudh
U+071E  | ܞ  | Syriac Letter Yudh He
U+071F  | ܟ  | Syriac Letter Kaph
U+0720  | ܠ  | Syriac Letter Lamadh
U+0721  | ܡ  | Syriac Letter Mim
U+0722  | ܢ  | Syriac Letter Nun
U+0723  | ܣ  | Syriac Letter Semkath
U+0724  | ܤ  | Syriac Letter Final Semkath
U+0725  | ܥ  | Syriac Letter E
U+0726  | ܦ  | Syriac Letter Pe
U+0727  | ܧ  | Syriac Letter Reversed Pe
U+0728  | ܨ  | Syriac Letter Sadhe
U+0729  | ܩ  | Syriac Letter Qaph
U+072A  | ܪ  | Syriac Letter Rish
U+072B  | ܫ  | Syriac Letter Shin
U+072C  | ܬ  | Syriac Letter Taw
U+072D  | ܭ  | Syriac Letter Persian Bheth
U+072E  | ܮ  | Syriac Letter Persian Ghamal
U+072F  | ܯ  | Syriac Letter Persian Dhalath
U+074D  | ݍ  | Syriac Letter Sogdian Zhain
U+074E  | ݎ  | Syriac Letter Sogdian Khaph
U+074F  | ݏ  | Syriac Letter Sogdian Fe
Diacritics
U+0730  | ܰ  | Syriac Pthaha Above
U+0731  | ܱ  | Syriac Pthaha Below
U+0732  | ܲ  | Syriac Pthaha Dotted
U+0733  | ܳ  | Syriac Zqapha Above
U+0734  | ܴ  | Syriac Zqapha Below
U+0735  | ܵ  | Syriac Zqapha Dotted
U+0736  | ܶ  | Syriac Rbasa Above
U+0737  | ܷ  | Syriac Rbasa Below
U+0738  | ܸ  | Syriac Dotted Zlama Horizontal
U+0739  | ܹ  | Syriac Dotted Zlama Angular
U+073A  | ܺ  | Syriac Hbasa Above
U+073B  | ܻ  | Syriac Hbasa Below
U+073C  | ܼ  | Syriac Hbasa-Esata Dotted
U+073D  | ܽ  | Syriac Esasa Above
U+073E  | ܾ  | Syriac Esasa Below
U+073F  | ܿ  | Syriac Rwaha
U+0740  | ݀  | Syriac Feminine Dot
U+0741  | ݁  | Syriac Qushshaya
U+0742  | ݂  | Syriac Rukkakha
U+0743  | ݃  | Syriac Two Vertical Dots Above
U+0744  | ݄  | Syriac Two Vertical Dots Below
U+0745  | ݅  | Syriac Three Dots Above
U+0746  | ݆  | Syriac Three Dots Below
U+0747  | ݇  | Syriac Oblique Line Above
U+0748  | ݈  | Syriac Oblique Line Below
U+0749  | ݉  | Syriac Music
U+074A  | ݊  | Syriac Barrekh

## References

1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

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