U+059C "֜" Hebrew Accent Geresh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+059C "֜" Hebrew Accent Geresh is a cantillation mark used in Biblical Hebrew to indicate a specific melodic pattern or syntactic division within the text, functioning as a disjunctive accent that often signals a pause or emphasis. It is part of the Hebrew script block and is typically placed above or to the left of the consonant it modifies, serving alongside other accents in the Masoretic system to guide proper liturgical chanting and interpretation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+059C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Geresh |
| 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x059C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000059C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u059c |