Samaritan source (⅏) is a symbol used in

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to indicate that a referenced textual source is written with the

Samaritan script The Samaritan script is used by the Samaritans for religious writings, including the Samaritan Pentateuch, writings in Samaritan Hebrew, and for commentaries and translations in Samaritan Aramaic and occasionally Arabic. Samaritan is a direc ...

. This character is encoded in

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as in the

Letterlike Symbols Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not expli ...

block.

References

{{writingsystem-stub Samaritan culture and history