U+072A SYRIAC LETTER RISH

The Unicode character U+072A, officially named SYRIAC LETTER RISH, was introduced in Unicode version 3.0. It is part of the Syriac block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Syrc script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Arabic Letter character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.