U+0809 "ࠉ" Samaritan Letter Yut Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࠉ
U+0809 "ࠉ" Samaritan Letter Yut is the tenth letter of the Samaritan alphabet, representing the consonant sound /j/, similar to the English letter Y. Derived from the ancient Paleo-Hebrew script, it is used primarily in liturgical and scholarly contexts for writing the Samaritan Pentateuch and other religious texts. This character holds cultural and historical significance for the Samaritan community, one of the oldest continuously existing religious groups, as it helps preserve their unique script and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0809 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Yut |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0809 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000809 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0809 |