U+0823 "ࠣ" Samaritan Vowel Sign A Unicode Character

U+0823 "ࠣ" Samaritan Vowel Sign A is a combining diacritical mark used in the Samaritan script, an ancient abjad descended from Paleo-Hebrew and still employed by the Samaritan community for liturgical and scholarly purposes. This vowel sign, which appears as a small hook or tick placed above a consonant, indicates the presence of an "a" vowel sound, helping to clarify pronunciation in a writing system that traditionally lacks full vowel representation. It belongs to the Samaritan block of Unicode, which was added to the standard to support the digital preservation and processing of this historic language, and it is typically rendered after the base character it modifies in encoded text.