U+0800 "ࠀ" Samaritan Letter Alaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0800 "ࠀ" Samaritan Letter Alaf is the first letter of the Samaritan alphabet, representing the glottal stop sound /ʔ/, analogous to the Hebrew letter Aleph. It is part of the Samaritan script, a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet used primarily by the Samaritan community for liturgical and scholarly purposes in their Torah and religious texts. This character holds a fundamental place in Samaritan writing, serving as the initial glyph in their alphabetical order and appearing in ancient manuscripts that preserve a distinct tradition of Hebrew language and scripture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0800 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Alaf |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0800 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000800 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0800 |