U+0806 "ࠆ" Samaritan Letter Zen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࠆ
U+0806 "ࠆ" Samaritan Letter Zen is a character within the Samaritan script used to write the Samaritan Hebrew language, primarily by the Samaritan community for liturgical and scholarly purposes. It represents the sound equivalent to the Hebrew letter Zayin, and its numerical value in the Samaritan alphabet is seven. This letter appears in ancient manuscripts such as the Samaritan Pentateuch and is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the digital preservation and accurate representation of this historic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0806 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Zen |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0806 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000806 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0806 |