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syriac pthaha below

Syriac Pthaha Below

ܱ is the West Syriac pthaha-below mark for an “a” vowel. Syriac dots also distinguished words sharing a consonant spelling.

Text symbol
Also called
pthaha · ptaha · pethaha
Search it as
Syriac vowel point · East Syriac pthaha
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What ܱ means

In West Syriac, it marks an “a” vowel below its letter. It is nonspacing: it attaches to a Syriac letter. Fonts can shift its appearance; Estrangela, a Syriac style, may omit it. East Syriac uses dotted ܲ.

Syriac dots are attested by the fifth century; they guided pronunciation and distinguished words with the same consonants. In the seventh and eighth centuries, the system grew more detailed, with conceptual links to Hebrew vowel points and early Arabic red-dot vowel marks.

A specialist reading mark used with Syriac letters.

Alone, ܱ is incomplete; it marks a vowel only beside a Syriac letter.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
Under a West Syriac consonant
Marks an “a” vowel beneath that consonant.
Alone in a message
An incomplete combining mark; its Syriac letter is missing.

Don't confuse it with

4
ܰ
Syriac Pthaha Above
shares “pthaha”, “syriac”
ܲ
Syriac Pthaha Dotted
shares “pthaha”, “syriac”
ܴ
Syriac Zqapha Below
shares “below”, “syriac”
ܷ
Syriac Rbasa Below
shares “below”, “syriac”

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 0731, 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 pthaha below”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 0731, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ܱ
CSS
\0731
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ܱ
HTML hex
ܱ
CSS content
content: "\0731";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%DC%B1
1
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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Middle East scripts1,599 symbols

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