What ࠓ means
Rish is a consonant letter in Samaritan script. It corresponds to Hebrew resh (ר), but the letters belong to separate scripts. The history of Samaritan Rish traces through linear Old Hebrew and Paleo-Hebrew, an older Hebrew script; square Hebrew took shape under Imperial Aramaic influence. Distinct Samaritan features appear by the third century CE.
Samaritan script serves Samaritan scripture and worship. Manchester's earliest dated complete Samaritan Pentateuch outside Nablus is from 1211 CE. From the beginning of the 13th century, Samaritan manuscripts used their letters for Arabic Torah translations and prayers to mark sacredness; a 20th-century revival brought the letters into festival poems.
It identifies Samaritan writing, including religious texts.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ࠓ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ࠓ
ࠓ\0813Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.