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U+05A8 Hebrew Accent Qadma

U+05A8 was added in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996. It belongs to the block U+0590 to U+05FF Hebrew in the 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 azla.

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+05A8 prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Kadma (Hebrew: קַדְמָא, with variant English spellings) is a common cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. It can be found by itself preceding certain trope groups, or together with a Geresh, in which case, the pair is known as "Kadma-V'Azla."
Kadma has the same symbol as the Pashta, though Kadma is distinct from Pashta in the placement of the symbol. In a Kadma, the symbol is always placed on the accented syllable, while Pashta is placed on the last letter and also on the accented syllable if the last syllable is not the accented one.
The symbols for Kadma V'Azla are designed to resemble the fingers of an outstretched hand in a curved position.
The Kadma-V'Azla pair occurs 1733 times in the Torah.
The word Kadma is related to the Hebrew קדמה (kedma), east. It is also related to the root ק־ד־ם, front. The combination of these words translates to going away.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	1448
UTF-8	D6 A8
UTF-16	05 A8
UTF-32	00 00 05 A8
URL-Quoted	%D6%A8
HTML hex reference	֨
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â—ŒÖ¨
alias	azla
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 30 F5 32
Adobe Glyph List	qadmahebrew

Related Characters

Confusables

Hebrew Accent Pashta

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name (na)	HEBREW ACCENT QADMA
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)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
Case Folding (cf)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
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)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
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)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
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)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
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)	Hebrew Accent Qadma
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R