U+0801 "ࠁ" Samaritan Letter Bit Unicode Character

U+0801 "ࠁ" Samaritan Letter Bit is a character from the Samaritan alphabet, an ancient script used primarily by the Samaritan community for liturgical and historical texts, including the Samaritan Pentateuch. This letter represents the consonant sound /b/ and is part of a writing system that descends from the Paleo-Hebrew script, preserving a form of Hebrew writing that predates the more widely known square Hebrew alphabet. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Samaritan block, which was added to support the digital representation of this endangered script and its cultural heritage.