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Samaritan (Unicode block)

Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic.

Last revised
Jul 21, 2026
Read time
≈ 1 min
Length
325 w
Citations
3
Source
Samaritan
RangeU+0800..U+083F
(64 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsSamaritan
Major alphabetsSamaritan Hebrew
Samaritan Aramaic
Assigned61 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode Version History
5.2 (2009)61 (+61)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: 12

Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic.

Samaritan[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+080x
U+081x
U+082x
U+083x
Notes
1.^As of Unicode version 17.0
2.^Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Samaritan block:

References

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.