U+05BE Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
U+05BE was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Dash Punctuation 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 Right To Left and is not mirrored. In text U+05BE behaves as Break After regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Hebrew punctuation is similar to that of English and other Western languages, Modern Hebrew having imported additional punctuation marks from these languages in order to avoid the ambiguities sometimes occasioned by the relative paucity of such symbols in Biblical Hebrew.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1470 |
UTF-8 | D6 BE |
UTF-16 | 05 BE |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 BE |
URL-Quoted | %D6%BE |
HTML-Escape | ־ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ö¾ |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | CE |
Adobe Glyph List | afii57645 |
Adobe Glyph List | maqafhebrew |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF | |
— | |
Hebrew | |
Dash Punctuation | |
Hebrew | |
Right To Left | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Break After | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |