U+0832 "࠲" Samaritan Punctuation Anged Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࠲
U+0832 "࠲" Samaritan Punctuation Anged is a specialized mark used in the Samaritan script, a direct descendant of the ancient Paleo-Hebrew alphabet still employed for liturgical and scholarly purposes by the Samaritan community. This particular punctuation sign functions to indicate a pause or separation within a text, similar in role to a comma or a minor break, and it appears in manuscripts of the Samaritan Pentateuch and other religious writings. Its precise meaning and usage are tied to the oral reading traditions of the Samaritan language, helping to guide rhythm and syntactic clarity in the recitation of sacred passages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0832 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Punctuation Anged |
| 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 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0832 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000832 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0832 |
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 |