U+0830 "࠰" Samaritan Punctuation Nequdaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࠰
U+0830 "࠰" Samaritan Punctuation Nequdaa is a diacritical mark used in the Samaritan script, a writing system primarily employed by the Samaritan community for religious texts such as the Samaritan Torah. This punctuation symbol functions as a vowel point or a phonetic marker, helping to indicate specific sounds or pause patterns in the reading of liturgical passages. It belongs to the Samaritan block of Unicode, which was added in version 5.2 of the standard to support the preservation and digital representation of this ancient Semitic language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0830 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Punctuation Nequdaa |
| Block | Samaritan |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࠰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࠰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA0 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0830 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000830 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0830 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Samaritan |
| Script Extensions | Samaritan |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |