U+0814 "ࠔ" Samaritan Letter Shan Unicode Character

U+0814 "ࠔ" Samaritan Letter Shan is a component of the Samaritan script, an ancient abjad used primarily for liturgical and scholarly writing of the Samaritan dialect of Hebrew by the Samaritan community. This letter, pronounced as "shan," corresponds to the Hebrew letter Shin and represents the "sh" sound. It is historically significant as part of the script's development from Paleo-Hebrew and appears in religious texts such as the Samaritan Pentateuch, helping preserve a distinct linguistic and cultural tradition that has survived for over two thousand years.