U+0840 "ࡀ" Mandaic Letter Halqa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0840 "ࡀ" Mandaic Letter Halqa is the first letter of the Mandaic alphabet, representing the glottal stop consonant sound often transcribed as a "halqa," which means "circle" or "ring" in Mandaic, a liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community. It is used in the sacred texts and rituals of Mandaeism, an ancient Gnostic religion originating in Mesopotamia, and it has a distinctive circular shape that reflects its name. This character belongs to the Mandaic script block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 to support the preservation and digital representation of this endangered language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0840 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Mandaic Letter Halqa |
| Block | Mandaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0840 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000840 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0840 |