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syriac harklean asteriscus

Syriac Harklean Asteriscus

܍ links a passage to a margin note in Thomas of Harqel’s Harklean New Testament, a Syriac translation from around 615–616. Paired signs track Greek readings; later copies moved readings between text and margin or dropped the system.

Text symbol

Search it as: Harklean · Syriac asterisk · asteriskos · U+070D
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ܍ means

It marks a passage linked to an editor’s margin note.

The Harklean apparatus was a set of margin signs for comparing Syriac wording with Greek readings. Surviving Gospel manuscripts containing the translation begin in the eighth century.

܍ opens a marked unit; ܌ closes it, and ܋ marks Syriac wording added for comparison with Greek. The trio adapts Greek asterisk and obelus marks associated with Origen’s Hexapla, a Bible edition that set versions side by side in columns. In mixed-script text, Syriac’s right-to-left direction and font choice can make ܍ appear misplaced.

Don't confuse it with

Syriac Harklean Obelus

shares “harklean”, “syriac”

Syriac Harklean Metobelus

shares “harklean”, “syriac”

Syriac End Of Paragraph

shares “syriac”

Syriac Supralinear Full Stop

shares “syriac”

Questions people ask

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 070D, 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 harklean asteriscus”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 070d, then Enter or Space.

HTML

܍

CSS

\070D

Unicode-aware input

Search for it by name in a Unicode-aware character picker.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

HTML hex

CSS content

content: "\070D";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%DC%8D

On screen

Code points

JS .length

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

Middle East scripts1,599 symbols

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