U+059B "֛" Hebrew Accent Tevir Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
֛
U+059B "֛" Hebrew Accent Tevir is a cantillation mark used in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible, functioning as a disjunctive accent that indicates a pause or break in the reading of a verse. It typically appears above or to the left of a stressed syllable, often serving as a secondary divider within a clause that is already separated by a stronger accent like Etnachta or Sof Pasuk. This mark, which is shaped like a small vertical or diagonal stroke, guides the liturgical chanting and grammatical parsing of the biblical text by signaling where a slight pause occurs but not a full stop.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+059B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Tevir |
| 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x059B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000059B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u059b |