U+214F "⅏" Symbol for Samaritan Source Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⅏
U+214F "⅏" Symbol for Samaritan Source is a specialized typographic mark used in biblical and textual criticism to denote the Samaritan source or tradition of the Hebrew Pentateuch, distinct from the Masoretic Text. This character belongs to the Letterlike Symbols block, where it serves as a concise notation for scholars referencing the Samaritan version of the Torah. Its design resembles a stylized letter or abstract symbol, and it was encoded in Unicode 5.2 in 2009 to support academic and theological works that require precise differentiation between ancient textual witnesses. The character helps avoid confusion when marking variant readings in critical editions of the Bible.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+214F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Symbol for Samaritan Source |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x214F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000214F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u214f |
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 | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |