U+0818 "࠘" Samaritan Mark Occlusion Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0818 "࠘" Samaritan Mark Occlusion is a diacritical mark used in the Samaritan script, which is employed for writing the Samaritan Hebrew language and its liturgical texts. This mark is typically placed above or around a consonant to indicate that the letter should not be pronounced or is silent, effectively occluding or muting its usual phonetic value. It arises from the Samaritan tradition of reading scripture, where certain consonants in specific contexts are not vocalized, distinguishing the written form from the spoken recitation. As part of the Samaritan alphabet block in Unicode, this character supports the accurate representation and digital preservation of ancient Samaritan manuscripts and modern scholarly works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0818 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Mark Occlusion |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0818 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000818 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0818 |