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Glyph for U+0706
Source: Noto Sans Syriac

U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left

U+0706 was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block U+0700 to U+074F Syriac in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is mainly used in the Syriac script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Arabic Letter and is not mirrored. In text U+0706 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

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
1798
UTF-8 DC 86
UTF-16 07 06
UTF-32 00 00 07 06
URL-Quoted %DC%86
HTML hex reference ܆
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ܆

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name SYRIAC COLON SKEWED LEFT
Unicode 1 Name
Block Syriac
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Syriac
Bidirectional Category Arabic Letter
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Case Folding Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0706 Syriac Colon Skewed Left
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R