Source: Noto Sans Hebrew

U+05BE Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf

U+05BE 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 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
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
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Hebrew
General Category	Dash Punctuation
Script	Hebrew
Bidirectional Category	Right To Left
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Case Folding	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
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 Punctuation Maqaf
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
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 Punctuation Maqaf
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	Other
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Break After
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R