What ࠺ means
It cues forceful delivery, not a new word. In the Samaritan sēdāri māqrāta (“arrangements of Scripture”), a system of reading marks that guides interpretation, zaef calls for emphatic or angry delivery.
Other Samaritan marks cue shouting, prayer, surprise, questions, teaching, or submissiveness. Samaritan script carries forward Paleo-Hebrew, an older form of Hebrew writing.
A 2007 encoding proposal places zaef in this older Samaritan punctuation system; the date belongs to the proposal, not the mark’s origin.
Specialist punctuation in Samaritan reading notation.
Don’t use zaef as an everyday exclamation mark; it cues how a passage is read.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ࠺ 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 ࠺
࠺\083ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.