SYRIAC HORIZONTAL COLON character

Name:

SYRIAC HORIZONTAL COLON

Hex Number:

U+0705

Decimal Number:

1797

HTML Entity (Dec):

HTML Entity (Hex):

Category:

Po (Other Puntuation)

Bidi Class:

AL (Right-to-Left Arabic)

Mirrored:

Combining Class:

Unicode Block:

Syriac

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP

Plane Description:

Basic Multilingual Plane

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

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SYRIAC HORIZONTAL COLON is a punctuation mark of other type from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SYRIAC HORIZONTAL COLON is Right-to-Left Arabic (Strong). It belongs to the strong right-to-left characters..

The Right-to-Left Arabic (AL) bidi class is similar to the Right-to-Left (R) class, but it specifically applies to Arabic script characters and characters from other scripts that behave similarly. This class is important for the correct handling of Arabic text in bidirectional contexts, ensuring that it aligns properly with the overall text direction.

Other Punctuation (Po) refers to all other punctuation marks that do not fit into the connector, dash, open, close, initial, or final categories. This includes characters like the period, comma, colon, and various other symbols used to structure sentences and phrases.

This character belongs to the Syriac block. Syriac is a Unicode block containing characters for all forms of the Syriac script, 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..

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