U+080A "ࠊ" Samaritan Letter Kaaf Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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