See also: Syriac Supplement.
| Blockname: | Syriac |
| Rangestart: | 0700 |
| Rangeend: | 074F |
| Script1: | Syriac |
| Alphabets: | Estrangela Serto or West Syriac Eastern Syriac Garshuni (Arabic) Neo-Aramaic |
| 3 0: | 71 |
| 4 0: | 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.
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Syriac block:
| Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | U+0700..070D, 070F..072C, 0730..074A | 71 | ||||
| N1718 | ||||||
| N1703 | ||||||
| N1837, | ||||||
| N1907 | ||||||
| N1906 | ||||||
| html, doc) | ||||||
| N4272 | ||||||
| 4.0 | U+072D..072F, 074D..074F | 6 | ||||
| N2422 | ||||||
| N2509 | ||||||
| Code | Result | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |