U+0802 "ࠂ" Samaritan Letter Gaman Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0802 "ࠂ" Samaritan Letter Gaman is a glyph from the Samaritan script, an ancient writing system derived from Paleo-Hebrew used by the Samaritan community for liturgical and sometimes secular purposes. This specific letter represents the voiced velar plosive sound /g/, akin to the English "g" in "go," and its name "Gaman" corresponds to the Hebrew letter Gimel. Part of the Samaritan block in Unicode, it is historically significant for preserving the textual traditions of the Samaritan Pentateuch, a version of the Torah distinct from the Jewish Masoretic text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0802 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Gaman |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0802 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000802 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0802 |