Symbol for Samaritan Source ⅏
Symbol Meaning
Have you ever read texts in Samaritan? It is a dialect of the Arameic language that was spoken in approximately X — XII centuries. This very script was the base for Samaritan Pentateuch, one of the sources studied carefully by biblical scholars alongside the Masoretic texts and the Septuagint. The symbol of the Samaritan Source will come in handy in case you decide to refer to the Pentateuch written in this ancient language.
Moreover, symbol ⅏ resembles a wave or an unusual curl. You can try using it in decorative typography or in your nickname along with other symbols belonging to the block called Dingbats2700–27BF .
The symbol “Symbol for Samaritan Source” is included in the “Biblical editorial symbol” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 5.1 in 2008.
| Unicode Name | Symbol for Samaritan Source |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Biblical editorial symbol |
| Unicode Version | 5.1 (2008) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 214F |
| Simple case change | 214F |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 85 8F | 226 133 143 | 14845327 | 11100010 10000101 10001111 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 4F | 33 79 | 8527 | 00100001 01001111 |
| UTF-16LE | 4F 21 | 79 33 | 20257 | 01001111 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 4F | 0 0 33 79 | 8527 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 01001111 |
| UTF-32LE | 4F 21 00 00 | 79 33 0 0 | 1327562752 | 01001111 00100001 00000000 00000000 |
