撒玛利亚字母

Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan 希伯来文字母0590–05FF and Aramaic.

The Samaritan alphabet is used by the Samaritans for religious writings, including the Samaritan Pentateuch, writings in Samaritan Hebrew, and for commentaries and translations in Samaritan Aramaic and occasionally Arabic. Samaritan is a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which was a variety of the Phoenician alphabet in which large parts of the Hebrew Bible were originally penned. All these scripts are believed to be descendants of the Proto-Sinaitic script. That script was used by the ancient Israelites, both Jews and Samaritans. The better-known 「square script」 Hebrew alphabet traditionally used by Jews is a stylized version of the Aramaic alphabet which they adopted from the Persian Empire (which in turn adopted it from the Arameans). After the fall of the Persian Empire, Judaism used both scripts before settling on the Aramaic form. For a limited time thereafter, the use of paleo-Hebrew (proto-Samaritan) among Jews was retained only to write the Tetragrammaton, but soon that custom was also abandoned.

属性

范围	0800–083F
字符	64

角色列表

字符表

07C0–07FF 西非书面语言 0840–085F 曼达字母

0 基本多文種平面

1 多文種補充平面

2 表意文字補充平面

3 表意文字第三平面

4-13：未使用

14 特別用途補充平面

15 保留作為私人使用區（A區）

16 保留作為私人使用區（B區）