U+0805 "ࠅ" Samaritan Letter Baa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0805 "ࠅ" Samaritan Letter Baa is the fifth letter of the Samaritan alphabet, representing the consonant sound /b/. It is used in the Samaritan script, which is a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet and is employed primarily for religious texts by the Samaritan community, notably in their Torah scrolls. This character occupies a specific position in the Unicode block for Samaritan script, enabling digital encoding and representation of this ancient writing system for modern computing and text processing.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0805
Name
Samaritan Letter Baa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ࠅ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࠅ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA0 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0805
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000805
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0805
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Samaritan