U+0709 Syriac Sublinear Colon Skewed Left *
U+0709 was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is mainly used in the Syriac script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0709 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted sentence. It is also used between hours and minutes in time, between certain elements in medical journal citations, between chapter and verse in Bible citations, and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other formal letter writing.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1801 |
UTF-8 | DC 89 |
UTF-16 | 07 09 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 07 09 |
URL-Quoted | %DC%89 |
HTML hex reference | ܉ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ܉ |
correction | SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED LEFT |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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3.0 (1999) | |
SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT | |
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Syriac | |
Other Punctuation | |
Syriac | |
Arabic Letter | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |