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Symbol used in classical studies
Samaritan source (⅏) is a symbol used in classical studies to indicate that a referenced textual source is written with the Samaritan script. This character is encoded in Unicode as U+214F ⅏ SYMBOL FOR SAMARITAN SOURCE in the Letterlike Symbols block.