U+080A "ࠊ" Samaritan Letter Kaaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+080A "ࠊ" Samaritan Letter Kaaf is the tenth letter of the Samaritan alphabet, used primarily by the Samaritan community for liturgical and scholarly purposes in writing the Samaritan Pentateuch and related texts. It represents the consonant sound /k/, corresponding to the Hebrew letter Kaf, and its shape features a distinctive curved top with a descending vertical stroke. This character is part of the Samaritan script, an ancient direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, and holds historical significance as one of the few surviving scripts that preserve the pre Exilic writing system of ancient Israel.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+080A |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Kaaf |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x080A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000080A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u080a |