U+0807 "ࠇ" Samaritan Letter It Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Samaritan
Script Extensions Samaritan
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter