U+0808 "ࠈ" Samaritan Letter Tit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0808 "ࠈ" Samaritan Letter Tit is a character from the Samaritan script, an ancient alphabet used historically by the Samaritan community for writing Hebrew and Aramaic texts, and still employed today in liturgical contexts. This specific letter, Tit, represents a consonant sound and is part of a writing system that traces its origins to the Paleo-Hebrew script, predating the more widely known square Hebrew alphabet. As a component of the Samaritan abjad, it appears in religious manuscripts such as the Samaritan Torah, contributing to the preservation of Samaritan cultural and linguistic heritage within the Unicode Standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0808 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Tit |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0808 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000808 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0808 |