U+0822 "ࠢ" Samaritan Vowel Sign Long A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0822 "ࠢ" Samaritan Vowel Sign Long A is a diacritical mark used in the Samaritan script, an ancient alphabet descended from Paleo-Hebrew and still employed today by the Samaritan community for liturgical and scholarly texts. This specific vowel sign indicates a long "a" sound, modifying the pronunciation of the consonant it is attached to. Positioned above or within the consonant letter, it helps to accurately represent the phonetic structure of the Samaritan language in written form, preserving the traditional reading of sacred texts such as the Samaritan Pentateuch.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0822 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Vowel Sign Long A |
| 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 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0822 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000822 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0822 |