U+083A SAMARITAN PUNCTUATION ZAEF

The Unicode character U+083A, officially named SAMARITAN PUNCTUATION ZAEF, 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 Other Punctuation, 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.