U+059E HEBREW ACCENT GERSHAYIM
U+059E was added to Unicode in version 2.0 (1996). It belongs to the block
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Hebrew script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. In text U+059E behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Gershayim (Hebrew: גֵּרְשַׁ֞יִם, with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark that is found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible.
The Hebrew word גֵּרְשַׁ֞יִם translates into English as double geresh.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1438 |
UTF-8 | D6 9E |
UTF-16 | 05 9E |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 9E |
URL-Quoted | %D6%9E |
HTML-Escape | ֞ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | âÖ |
Adobe Glyph List | gershayimaccenthebrew |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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2.0 (1996) | |
HEBREW ACCENT GERSHAYIM | |
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Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Above | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Transparent | |
Combining Mark | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |