U+0836 "࠶" Samaritan Abbreviation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࠶
U+0836 "࠶" Samaritan Abbreviation Mark is a typographic mark used in the Samaritan script, an ancient writing system related to Hebrew and other Northwest Semitic languages. This specific character serves as an abbreviation sign, indicating that a preceding word or phrase has been shortened, often for scribal convenience or to conserve space in manuscripts. It is positioned above or near the abbreviated text, functioning much like a modern period or contraction marker, and is primarily found in religious and historical Samaritan documents, such as the Samaritan Torah.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0836 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Abbreviation Mark |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0836 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000836 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0836 |
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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |