Syriac (Unicode block)

See also: Syriac Supplement (Unicode block)
Syriac
RangeU+0700..U+074F
(80 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsSyriac
Major alphabetsEstrangela
Serto or West Syriac
Eastern Syriac
Garshuni (Arabic)
Neo-Aramaic
Assigned77 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)71 (+71)
4.0 (2003)77 (+6)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Syriac Unicode block.

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.

Unicode chart

Syriac[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+070x ܀ ܁ ܂ ܃ ܄ ܅ ܆ ܇ ܈ ܉ ܊ ܋ ܌ ܍ SAM
U+071x ܐ ܑ ܒ ܓ ܔ ܕ ܖ ܗ ܘ ܙ ܚ ܛ ܜ ܝ ܞ ܟ
U+072x ܠ ܡ ܢ ܣ ܤ ܥ ܦ ܧ ܨ ܩ ܪ ܫ ܬ ܭ ܮ ܯ
U+073x ܰ ܱ ܲ ܳ ܴ ܵ ܶ ܷ ܸ ܹ ܺ ܻ ܼ ܽ ܾ ܿ
U+074x ݀ ݁ ݂ ݃ ݄ ݅ ݆ ݇ ݈ ݉ ݊ ݍ ݎ ݏ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
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
L2/98-051 Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George (1998-02-23), Supporting letters for Encoding Syriac
L2/98-052 Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George (1998-02-23), Examples of Syriac
L2/98-070 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.2. item a. Syriac script", 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), "Character Properties for Syriac Script", 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), "8.23", 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
N1906 Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM27 - Syriac
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "6.7.10", 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"
L2/10-439 Pournader, Roozbeh; Esfahbod, Behdad (2010-10-27), Refixing the bidi class for U+070F SYRIAC ABBREVIATION MARK
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), "Consensus 131-C20", 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), "Manichaean and Christian Sogdian Scripts", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Christian Sogdian written in Syriac script(s)", 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
L2/02-405 N2509 Everson, Michael; Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2002-11-04), Shaping behaviour of six Syriac letters for Sogdian and Persian
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Character list

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

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.