U+0594 "֔" Hebrew Accent Zaqef Qatan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0594 "֔" Hebrew Accent Zaqef Qatan is a cantillation mark used in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible, specifically belonging to the Tiberian system of biblical accentuation. It functions as a conjunctive accent of the etnachta group, indicating a less significant pause than its counterpart the Zaqef Gadol, and is typically placed above the stressed syllable of a word to guide the melodic recitation and syntactic structure of the text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0594 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Zaqef Qatan |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ֔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ֔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0594 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000594 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0594 |