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ܹ

syriac dotted zlama angular

Syriac Dotted Zlama Angular

ܹ marks an e vowel on the preceding letter in Eastern Syriac. It appears in vowel-marked scripture and lessons in Assyrian and Chaldean traditions.

Text symbol
Search it as
zlama qashya · zlama pshiqa · Syriac vowel point · Eastern Syriac vowel · Assyrian vowel mark
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ܹ means

It marks the East Syriac e vowel on the preceding letter. Syriac points first distinguished words written alike. The first dated Syriac manuscript with diacritical points is from 411 CE; basic word distinctions appear by ca. 600 CE. An oblique pair below the line marking e appears in eighth-century manuscripts.

East Syriac names it zlama qashya; West Syriac uses rbasa for a comparable e range. The vowel systems are related, but not interchangeable.

A reading aid in vowel-marked East Syriac texts.

Unattached, it may sit on a dotted-circle placeholder; the circle is not text.

Don't confuse it with

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ܸ
Syriac Dotted Zlama Horizontal
zlama qashya vs zlama pshiqa: ܸ marks a shorter front vowel; ܹ marks the longer e vowel.

Questions people ask

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Why does ܹ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ܹ

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 0739, then Alt+X to get ܹ.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “syriac dotted zlama angular”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 0739, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ܹ
CSS
\0739
Syriac Phonetic–Karshon layout
On this layout, **Shift+N** inserts it after a base letter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ܹ
HTML hex
ܹ
CSS content
content: "\0739";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%DC%B9
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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