U+080A "ࠊ" Samaritan Letter Kaaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+080A "ࠊ" Samaritan Letter Kaaf is the tenth letter of the Samaritan alphabet, used primarily by the Samaritan community for liturgical and scholarly purposes in writing the Samaritan Pentateuch and related texts. It represents the consonant sound /k/, corresponding to the Hebrew letter Kaf, and its shape features a distinctive curved top with a descending vertical stroke. This character is part of the Samaritan script, an ancient direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, and holds historical significance as one of the few surviving scripts that preserve the pre Exilic writing system of ancient Israel.
General Properties
Code Point
U+080A
Name
Samaritan Letter Kaaf
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ࠊ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࠊ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA0 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x080A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000080A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u080a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Samaritan