What ܿ means
It marks the long o vowel in East Syriac. Syriac Rwaha with waw is written ܘܿ; read the dot with its letter.
East Syriac marks vowels with dots; West Syriac usually uses Greek-derived signs. Hebrew scripture has a related vowel-marking system, called the Masoretic system.
These points guide pronunciation and distinguish biblical readings. One account dates East Syriac dotted vocalization to the 5th century CE; a later study places one-to-one vowel signs by the 8th century CE.
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Who writes ܿ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find ܿ
- Also called
- rwāḥā · ‘ṣāṣā rwīḥā
- Search it as
- rwaha · Syriac vowel point · waw · Qushshaya
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
ܿCSS
\073FSyriac phonetic keyboard
How to type Syriac Rwaha: press ShiftB on Hughes's Syriac phonetic keyboard; other layouts may differ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ܿ
HTML hex
ܿ
CSS content
content: "\073F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%DC%BF
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.