The Syriac block spans U+0700–U+074F, 80 codepoints in Plane 0 (Basic Multilingual Plane). 77 are assigned in Unicode 16.0; the other 3 are reserved for future characters.
All of its characters belong to the Syriac script.
By general category: 34 other letters (Lo), 28 non-spacing marks (Mn), 14 other punctuation (Po), 1 format characters (Cf).
The first 71 arrived in Unicode 3.0 (1999); later additions came in 4.0 (6).
Most letters here are written right to left. See bidirectional text.
Most characters here are combining marks. See combining diacritical marks.