U+0815 "ࠕ" Samaritan Letter Taaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࠕ
U+0815 "ࠕ" Samaritan Letter Taaf is the final letter of the Samaritan alphabet, representing the sound equivalent to the Hebrew letter Tav. It is used in the Samaritan script, a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which is primarily employed by the Samaritan community for religious texts such as the Samaritan Pentateuch and liturgical writings. The letter Taaf, like all Samaritan letters, is written from right to left and holds significance in preserving an ancient tradition of writing that predates the modern Hebrew script. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and preservation of this endangered script for scholarly and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0815 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Letter Taaf |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0815 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000815 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0815 |