| 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 (1999) | 71 (+71) |
| 4.0 (2003) | 77 (+6) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart?∣?Web page | |
| 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.
Unicode chart
[edit]| 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 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| U+072x | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| U+073x | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| U+074x | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
[edit]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. (2025-08-06), The Unicode draft proposal for Syriac character encoding | |
| L2/98-051 | Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George (2025-08-06), Supporting letters for Encoding Syriac | ||||
| L2/98-052 | Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George (2025-08-06), 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 (2025-08-06), Presentation to support the coding of Syriac | ||||
| L2/98-050 | N1718 | Nelson, Paul; Kiraz, George; Hasso, Sargon (2025-08-06), Proposal to Encode Syriac in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/98-156 | Kiraz, George, Syriac: Unicode character properties | ||||
| L2/98-158 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (2025-08-06), "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 (2025-08-06), "8.23", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 2025-08-06--20 | |||
| N1837, N1837-Ireland | Summary of Voting/Table of Replies - Amendment 27 - Syriac, 2025-08-06 | ||||
| L2/98-322 | N1907 | ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM. 27, AMENDMENT 27: Syriac, 2025-08-06 | |||
| N1906 | Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (2025-08-06), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM27 - Syriac | ||||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2025-08-06), "6.7.10", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 2025-08-06--25 | |||
| L2/01-118 | Whistler, Ken; Cimarosti, Marco (2025-08-06), Joining group "WAW" | ||||
| L2/10-439 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Esfahbod, Behdad (2025-08-06), Refixing the bidi class for U+070F SYRIAC ABBREVIATION MARK | ||||
| L2/11-286 | Esfahbod, Behdad (2025-08-06), Syriac shaping fixes and clarifications | ||||
| L2/12-050 | Anderson, Deborah (2025-08-06), Glyph erratum for U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT | ||||
| L2/12-188 | N4272 | Anderson, Deborah (2025-08-06), Naming error for U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT | |||
| L2/12-112 | Moore, Lisa (2025-08-06), "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 (2025-08-06), "Manichaean and Christian Sogdian Scripts", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode | |
| L2/02-009 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2025-08-06), "Christian Sogdian written in Syriac script(s)", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report | ||||
| L2/02-132 | N2422 | Everson, Michael (2025-08-06), Proposal to add six Syriac letters for Sogdian and Persian to the UCS | |||
| L2/02-185 | Nelson, Paul (2025-08-06), E-mail from Paul Nelson re Sogdian Issues | ||||
| L2/02-405 | N2509 | Everson, Michael; Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2025-08-06), Shaping behaviour of six Syriac letters for Sogdian and Persian | |||
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Character list
[edit]| 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 | ? | Syriac Letter Alaph |
| U+0711 | ? | Syriac Letter Superscript Alaph |
| U+0712 | ? | Syriac Letter Beth |
| U+0713 | ? | Syriac Letter Gamal |
| U+0714 | ? | Syriac Letter Gamal Garshuni |
| U+0715 | ? | Syriac Letter Dalath |
| U+0716 | ? | Syriac Letter Dotless Dalath Rish |
| U+0717 | ? | Syriac Letter He |
| U+0718 | ? | Syriac Letter Waw |
| U+0719 | ? | Syriac Letter Zain |
| U+071A | ? | Syriac Letter Heth |
| U+071B | ? | Syriac Letter Teth |
| U+071C | ? | Syriac Letter Teth Garshuni |
| U+071D | ? | Syriac Letter Yudh |
| U+071E | ? | Syriac Letter Yudh He |
| U+071F | ? | Syriac Letter Kaph |
| U+0720 | ? | Syriac Letter Lamadh |
| U+0721 | ? | Syriac Letter Mim |
| U+0722 | ? | Syriac Letter Nun |
| U+0723 | ? | Syriac Letter Semkath |
| U+0724 | ? | Syriac Letter Final Semkath |
| U+0725 | ? | Syriac Letter E |
| U+0726 | ? | Syriac Letter Pe |
| U+0727 | ? | Syriac Letter Reversed Pe |
| U+0728 | ? | Syriac Letter Sadhe |
| U+0729 | ? | Syriac Letter Qaph |
| U+072A | ? | Syriac Letter Rish |
| U+072B | ? | Syriac Letter Shin |
| U+072C | ? | Syriac Letter Taw |
| U+072D | ? | Syriac Letter Persian Bheth |
| U+072E | ? | Syriac Letter Persian Ghamal |
| U+072F | ? | Syriac Letter Persian Dhalath |
| U+074D | ? | Syriac Letter Sogdian Zhain |
| U+074E | ? | Syriac Letter Sogdian Khaph |
| U+074F | ? | 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
[edit]- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2025-08-06.