What ࠷ means
It marks a sentence for melodic reading. Samaritan qitsa divides Torah text; this form tells readers to chant the marked sentence.
The Samaritan script preserves an older Hebrew form called Paleo-Hebrew. Qitsa's section breaks parallel the open and closed divisions in the Masoretic Pentateuch, a Jewish textual tradition of the Torah.
Specialist Samaritan punctuation for a chant cue.
It is not a generic full stop.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Does melodic qitsa look the same in every font?
No. Samaritan fonts show several qitsa forms; the melodic form can look quite different from the others.
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How to type or find ࠷
- Also called
- qissa · qissah
- Search it as
- melodic qitsa · qitsa · Samaritan punctuation · chant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
࠷CSS
\0837Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
࠷
HTML hex
࠷
CSS content
content: "\0837";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%A0%B7
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.