U+0599 "֙" Hebrew Accent Pashta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0599 "֙" Hebrew Accent Pashta is a cantillation mark used in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible to indicate a specific musical note or stress pattern during liturgical chanting. It typically appears above or near a word and serves as a conjunctive accent, meaning it links the accented syllable to the following word without a pause, often associated with a rising or secondary tone. Pashta is commonly found in prose books like the Torah and helps readers pronounce and phrase the sacred text according to traditional Jewish cantillation practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0599 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Pashta |
| 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 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0599 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000599 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0599 |