U+0803 "ࠃ" Samaritan Letter Dalat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࠃ
U+0803 "ࠃ" Samaritan Letter Dalat is the fourth letter in the Samaritan script, a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet used primarily by the Samaritan community for liturgical and scholarly purposes. This character represents the voiced dental stop sound /d/ and corresponds to the Hebrew letter Dalet. Historically, the Samaritan script has been preserved in religious manuscripts, such as the Samaritan Torah, and the letter Dalat often appears in sacred texts and inscriptions. Its distinct cursive form differs from the more widely known square Hebrew script, making it a significant element for studying ancient Semitic writing systems and Samaritan cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0803 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Dalat |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0803 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000803 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0803 |