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U+214F Symbol for Samaritan Source

U+214F was added to Unicode in version 5.1 (2008). It belongs to the block U+2100 to U+214F Letterlike Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+214F behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Samaritan source (⅏) is a symbol used in classical studies to indicate that a referenced textual source is written with the Samaritan script. This character is encoded in Unicode as U+214F ⅏ SYMBOL FOR SAMARITAN SOURCE in the Letterlike Symbols block.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	8527
UTF-8	E2 85 8F
UTF-16	21 4F
UTF-32	00 00 21 4F
URL-Quoted	%E2%85%8F
HTML-Escape	⅏
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	5.1 (2008)
Unicode Name	SYMBOL FOR SAMARITAN SOURCE
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Letterlike Symbols
General Category	Other Symbol
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Lowercase Mapping	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Uppercase Mapping	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Titlecase Mapping	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Case Folding	Symbol for Samaritan Source
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✘
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Symbol for Samaritan Source
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Symbol for Samaritan Source
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U