U+05A5 Hebrew Accent Merkha
U+05A5 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 character is also known as yored.
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+05A5 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:
Mercha (Hebrew: מֵרְכָ֥א, also spelled Merkha and other variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books that are chanted.
Mercha is found in several trope groups, though the melody varies from one use to the next. It is the beginning of the Etnachta group, can be found either once or twice preceding the Sof passuk, or can occasionally precede the Pashta in the Katon group or a Tevir.
Mercha appears in the Torah 9117 times—the second most of any trope sounds. Only Tipcha occurs more often.
The Hebrew word מֵרְכָ֥א translates into English as mercha.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1445 |
UTF-8 | D6 A5 |
UTF-16 | 05 A5 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 A5 |
URL-Quoted | %D6%A5 |
HTML hex reference | ֥ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌֥ |
alias | yored |
Adobe Glyph List | merkhahebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | merkhalefthebrew |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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2.0 (1996) | |
HEBREW ACCENT MERKHA | |
— | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Below | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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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 |