U+059D "֝" Hebrew Accent Geresh Muqdam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+059D "֝" Hebrew Accent Geresh Muqdam is a cantillation mark used in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible, specifically within the poetic books of Job, Psalms, and Proverbs. This accent, whose name means "early geresh" or "preposed geresh," is placed above the stressed syllable of a word, most often on a letter that carries a vowel, to indicate a specific melodic phrase or pause in the liturgical chanting. Unlike the regular Geresh accent, the Muqdam variant is positioned slightly before the consonant it ornaments, and it typically occurs on a syllable immediately preceding a major disjunctive accent, serving to enhance the rhythmic and musical flow of the biblical verse.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+059D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Geresh Muqdam |
| 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 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x059D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000059D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u059d |