U+0831 "࠱" Samaritan Punctuation Afsaaq Unicode Character

U+0831 "࠱" Samaritan Punctuation Afsaaq is a rare and specialized glyph used in the Samaritan script, an ancient writing system descended from Paleo-Hebrew and still employed by the Samaritan community for religious texts. This punctuation mark, whose name "Afsaaq" likely relates to a pause or separation in pronunciation, functions as a word divider or a marker of minor breaks within verses of the Samaritan Pentateuch, much like a comma or space in modern scripts. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation of Samaritan liturgy and manuscript studies, though it remains obscure outside of academic or religious contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0831
Version Added	5.2
Name	Samaritan Punctuation Afsaaq
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 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0831
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000831
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0831

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