Source: Noto Sans Syriac

U+0708 Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left

U+0708 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+0708 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, chapter and verse in Bible citations, and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other formal letter writing.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	1800
UTF-8	DC 88
UTF-16	07 08
UTF-32	00 00 07 08
URL-Quoted	%DC%88
HTML hex reference	܈
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	Üˆ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name	SYRIAC SUPRALINEAR 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	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Lowercase Mapping	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Uppercase Mapping	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Titlecase Mapping	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Case Folding	Syriac Supralinear 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	Syriac Supralinear 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	✘
Ideographic	✘
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	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
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	Syriac Supralinear 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	Syriac Supralinear Colon Skewed Left
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R