Glyph for U+059C Source: Noto Sans Hebrew
U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
U+059C was added in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996. It belongs to the block U+0590 to U+05FF Hebrew U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Hebrew script. The character is also known as teres .
The glyph is not a composition . It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark . When changing direction it is not mirrored . U+059C prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph .
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Geresh (Hebrew: גֵּרֵשׁ , with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. It is most often found together with the Kadma, in which case the pair is known as Kadma-V'Azla , but it can also be found independently, in which case it is referred to as Azla Geresh or simply as Geresh .
The Geresh occurs 1733 times in the Torah in the Kadma-V'Azla pair, and 1112 times separately.
The Hebrew word גֵּרֵשׁ driving out .
Representations
System
Representation
Nº
1436
UTF-8
D6 9C
UTF-16
05 9C
UTF-32
00 00 05 9C
URL-Quoted
%D6%9C
HTML hex reference
֜
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
◌֜
alias
teres
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 30 F4 30
Adobe Glyph List
gereshaccenthebrew
Related Characters
Confusables
Complete Record
Property
Value
Age (age)
2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name (na)
HEBREW ACCENT GERESH
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
—
Block (blk)
Hebrew
General Category (gc)
Nonspacing Mark
Script (sc)
Hebrew
Bidirectional Category (bc)
Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class (ccc)
Above
Decomposition Type (dt)
none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Lowercase (Lower)
✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Lowercase Mapping (lc)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Uppercase (Upper)
✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Uppercase Mapping (uc)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Titlecase Mapping (tc)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Case Folding (cf)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)
✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)
✘
Case Ignorable (CI)
✔
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
✘
Cased (Cased)
✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
✘
Dash (Dash)
✘
Deprecated (Dep)
✘
Diacritic (Dia)
✔
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
✘
Emoji Component (EComp)
✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
✘
Emoji (Emoji)
✘
Extender (Ext)
✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)
Extend
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
✘
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
✔
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
✘
Hex Digit (Hex)
✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)
✘
ID Continue (IDC)
✔
ID Start (IDS)
✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
✘
IDSU (IDSU)
0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)
0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)
0
Ideographic (Ideo)
✘
InCB (InCB)
Extend
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)
NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)
Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
—
Join Control (Join_C)
✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
✘
Math (Math)
✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)
Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)
Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)
Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)
Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)
✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)
✘
Other Math (OMath)
✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)
✘
Regional Indicator (RI)
✘
Radical (Radical)
✘
Sentence Break (SB)
Extend
Soft Dotted (SD)
✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
✘
Variation Selector (VS)
✘
Word Break (WB)
Extend
White Space (WSpace)
✘
XID Continue (XIDC)
✔
XID Start (XIDS)
✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)
None
East Asian Width (ea)
neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)
Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
—
Joining Group (jg)
No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)
Transparent
Line Break (lb)
Combining Mark
Numeric Type (nt)
none
Numeric Value (nv)
not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)
Glyph for U+059C Hebrew Accent Geresh
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)
R