U+0824 SAMARITAN MODIFIER LETTER SHORT A

The Unicode character U+0824, officially named SAMARITAN MODIFIER LETTER SHORT A, was introduced in Unicode version 5.2. It is part of the Samaritan block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Modifier Letter, this character typically falls under the Samr script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Right-To-Left character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.