Unicode Character "܈" (U+0708)

The character ܈ (Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0708. It is encoded in the Syriac block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (September, 1999). It is HTML encoded as ܈.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Unicode Codepoint U+0708
Unicode Version 3.0 (September, 1999)
Block Syriac
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Arabic Letter (AL)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Syriac
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0708 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ܈
HTML (hex) ܈
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %DC%88
CSS \000708
JavaScript, JSON \u0708
C, C++, Java \u0708
Python \u0708
Rust \u{0708}
Ruby \u0708

How to type "܈"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 7 0 8. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 7 0 8. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ܈
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ܈
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ܈
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xDC 0x88
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0708
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000708

References