U+0839 "࠹" Samaritan Punctuation Qitsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࠹
U+0839 "࠹" Samaritan Punctuation Qitsa is a relatively obscure punctuation mark used in the Samaritan script, a descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet employed by the Samaritan community for liturgical and scholarly texts. This specific glyph functions as a form of end stop or verse divider, often signaling a major break or the conclusion of a section within a sentence, similar in some contexts to a full stop or colon. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for the accurate digital representation of ancient and modern Samaritan manuscripts, preserving the unique textual rhythm and structure of the Samaritan tradition for scholarship and digital preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0839 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Samaritan Punctuation Qitsa |
| 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 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0839 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000839 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0839 |
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 |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | STerm |