U+0833 "࠳" Samaritan Punctuation Bau Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࠳
U+0833 "࠳" Samaritan Punctuation Bau is a diacritic-like mark used in the Samaritan script to indicate a specific pause or separation within a text, functioning similarly to a punctuation or accent sign in the Samaritan version of the Torah. Unlike standard punctuation in many other scripts, it is placed above or alongside the line of writing to guide oral reading rather than syntactic structure, reflecting the liturgical and ritual tradition of Samaritan pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0833 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Punctuation Bau |
| 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 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0833 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000833 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0833 |
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 |