U+05B9 HEBREW POINT HOLAM: ◌ֹ – Unicode

U+05B9 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). 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 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+05B9 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:

Holam (modern Hebrew: חוֹלָם‎, IPA: [χoˈlam], formerly חֹלֶם‎, ḥṓlem) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by a dot above the upper left corner of the consonant letter. For example, here the holam appears after the letter mem ⟨מ‎⟩‎: מֹ‎. In modern Hebrew, it indicates the mid back rounded vowel, [o̞], and is transliterated as an o.
The mater lectionis letter which is usually employed with holam is vav, although in a few words, the letters alef or he are used instead of vav. When it is used with a mater lectionis, the holam is called holam male (חוֹלָם מָלֵא‎, IPA: [χoˈlam maˈle], "full holam"), and without it the holam is called holam haser (חוֹלָם חָסֵר‎, IPA: [χoˈlam χaˈser], "deficient holam").

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	1465
UTF-8	D6 B9
UTF-16	05 B9
UTF-32	00 00 05 B9
URL-Quoted	%D6%B9
HTML-Escape	ֹ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	âÖ¹
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes)	C9
Adobe Glyph List	afii57806
Adobe Glyph List	holam
Adobe Glyph List	holam19
Adobe Glyph List	holam26
Adobe Glyph List	holam32
Adobe Glyph List	holamhebrew
Adobe Glyph List	holamnarrowhebrew
Adobe Glyph List	holamquarterhebrew
Adobe Glyph List	holamwidehebrew

Related Characters

Hebrew Letter Vav with Holam

Confusables

Combining Dot Above

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	HEBREW POINT HOLAM
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Hebrew
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Script	Hebrew
Bidirectional Category	Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class	Ccc19
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Hebrew Point Holam
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Point Holam
Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Point Holam
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Point Holam
Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Point Holam
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Point Holam
Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Point Holam
Case Folding	Hebrew Point Holam
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✔
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✔
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Hebrew Point Holam
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Grapheme Base	✘
Grapheme Extend	✔
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Hebrew Point Holam
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✔
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Extend
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Extend
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Hebrew Point Holam
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Hebrew Point Holam
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R