U+0597 "֗" Hebrew Accent Revia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0597 "֗" Hebrew Accent Revia is a cantillation mark used in the Hebrew Bible to indicate a specific musical or syntactic division in the reading of the Masoretic text, typically applied below the consonant of a word to denote a pause or stress that helps clarify sentence structure and liturgical chanting. It belongs to the set of te’amim or trope symbols, and its name, Revia, means "quarter" in Hebrew, reflecting its role as a secondary or minor disjunctive accent that separates clauses or phrases within a verse.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0597 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Revia |
| 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0597 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000597 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0597 |