U+0805 "ࠅ" Samaritan Letter Baa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࠅ
U+0805 "ࠅ" Samaritan Letter Baa is the fifth letter of the Samaritan alphabet, representing the consonant sound /b/. It is used in the Samaritan script, which is a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet and is employed primarily for religious texts by the Samaritan community, notably in their Torah scrolls. This character occupies a specific position in the Unicode block for Samaritan script, enabling digital encoding and representation of this ancient writing system for modern computing and text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0805 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Baa |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0805 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000805 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0805 |