U+0591 "֑" Hebrew Accent Etnahta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0591 "֑" Hebrew Accent Etnahta is a cantillation mark used in biblical Hebrew texts to indicate a specific melodic and syntactic pause, functioning as the main divider within a verse, often equivalent to a comma or semicolon in English punctuation. It attaches to the stressed syllable of a word and signals a break that is less final than the silluq, which marks the end of a verse, and it forms part of the te’amim system that guides the liturgical chanting of the Hebrew Bible.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0591 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Etnahta |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ֑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ֑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0591 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000591 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0591 |