U+0807 "ࠇ" Samaritan Letter It Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࠇ
U+0807 "ࠇ" Samaritan Letter It is a character from the Samaritan script, used historically by the Samaritan community primarily for liturgical and religious texts, including the Samaritan Pentateuch. This letter represents a glottal or pharyngeal consonant sound and is part of the Samaritan alphabet, which is a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew script. The character is encoded in Unicode’s Samaritan block, which was added to support the digital representation of this ancient writing system for scholarly and cultural preservation purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0807 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter It |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0807 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000807 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0807 |