U+082C "ࠬ" Samaritan Vowel Sign Sukun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+082C "ࠬ" Samaritan Vowel Sign Sukun is a diacritical mark used in the Samaritan alphabet, primarily to indicate the absence of a vowel in a syllable, similar to the Arabic sukun. It is placed above or below a consonant to show that the consonant is not followed by a vowel sound, playing a key role in the accurate reading and pronunciation of the Samaritan script, which is used for religious texts like the Samaritan Torah. This character belongs to the Samaritan script block in Unicode and helps preserve the ancient phonetic traditions of the Samaritan community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+082C |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Vowel Sign Sukun |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x082C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000082C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u082c |