SYRIAC OBLIQUE LINE ABOVE character

Name:

SYRIAC OBLIQUE LINE ABOVE

Hex Number:

U+0747

Decimal Number:

1863

HTML Entity (Dec):

HTML Entity (Hex):

Category:

Mn (Nonspacing Mark)

Bidi Class:

NSM (Nonspacing Mark)

Mirrored:

Combining Class:

230

Unicode Block:

Syriac

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP

Plane Description:

Basic Multilingual Plane

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

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SYRIAC OBLIQUE LINE ABOVE is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SYRIAC OBLIQUE LINE ABOVE is Nonspacing Mark (Weak). It belongs to the non-spacing marks, which take on the directionality of the characters to which they attach..

The Nonspacing Mark (NSM) bidi class is assigned to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but modify the preceding base character. NSMs are neutral in directionality but inherit the directionality of the base character they are attached to. They are essential for the accurate representation of characters with diacritics in bidirectional text.

Nonspacing Mark (Mn) refers to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but instead combine with a preceding base character to modify its sound or meaning. Nonspacing marks are essential in many scripts, including Latin, Arabic, and Devanagari, for accurate representation of text.

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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