U+05AE HEBREW ACCENT ZINOR
U+05AE 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 tsinor; zarqa.
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. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+05AE 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:
Zarka or zarqa (Hebrew: זַרְקָא֮, with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. It is usually found together with the Segol, with a Munach preceding either or both. The symbol for a Zarka is a 90 degrees rotated, inverted S. The Hebrew word זַרְקָא֮ translates as "throwing" and the melody is ascending in Moroccan and Sefardic tradition (with two or one retracements respectively) and descending in the Ashkenazic.
Zarka is part of the Segol group. In this group, Zarka is the connector and Segol is the separator.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1454 |
UTF-8 | D6 AE |
UTF-16 | 05 AE |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 AE |
URL-Quoted | %D6%AE |
HTML-Escape | ֮ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | âÖ® |
alias | tsinor; zarqa |
Adobe Glyph List | zinorhebrew |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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2.0 (1996) | |
HEBREW ACCENT ZINOR | |
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Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Above Left | |
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 |