U+05B8 HEBREW POINT QAMATS
U+05B8 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). 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+05B8 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:
Kamatz or qamatz (Modern Hebrew: קָמָץ, IPA: [kaˈmats]; alternatively קָמֶץ qāmeṣ) is a Hebrew niqqud (vowel) sign represented by two perpendicular lines (looking like an uppercase T) ⟨ ָ ⟩ underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it usually indicates the phoneme /a/ which is the "a" sound in the word spa and is transliterated as a . In these cases, its sound is identical to the sound of pataḥ in modern Hebrew. In a minority of cases it indicates the phoneme /o/, equal to the sound of ḥolam.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1464 |
UTF-8 | D6 B8 |
UTF-16 | 05 B8 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 B8 |
URL-Quoted | %D6%B8 |
HTML-Escape | ָ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | âÖ¸ |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | C8 |
Adobe Glyph List | afii57797 |
Adobe Glyph List | qamats |
Adobe Glyph List | qamats10 |
Adobe Glyph List | qamats1a |
Adobe Glyph List | qamats1c |
Adobe Glyph List | qamats27 |
Adobe Glyph List | qamats29 |
Adobe Glyph List | qamats33 |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatsde |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatshebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatsnarrowhebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatsqatanhebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatsqatannarrowhebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatsqatanquarterhebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatsqatanwidehebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatsquarterhebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | qamatswidehebrew |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
HEBREW POINT QAMATS | |
— | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Ccc18 | |
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 |