U+0826 "ࠦ" Samaritan Vowel Sign Long U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0826 "ࠦ" Samaritan Vowel Sign Long U is a diacritical mark used in the Samaritan script, an ancient writing system employed by the Samaritan community for liturgical and biblical texts. This vowel sign is placed below a consonant to indicate a long /uː/ sound, distinguishing it from the short vowel counterpart, and it plays a crucial role in the precise reading and pronunciation of Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts. As part of the Samaritan block in Unicode, it helps preserve the orthographic traditions of this minority language, which has survived for centuries in the region of modern-day Israel and Palestine.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0826 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Vowel Sign Long U |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0826 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000826 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0826 |