U+059E "֞" Hebrew Accent Gershayim Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
֞
U+059E "֞" Hebrew Accent Gershayim is a cantillation mark used in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible to indicate a specific musical or recitative pattern for the word it accompanies. This accent is typically placed above the letter, and it functions as a disjunctive accent, meaning it introduces a pause or separation in the verse, often serving to emphasize or structure the syntactic flow. Unlike the similar-looking double quotation mark, the Gershayim accent is a distinct typographic symbol integral to the traditional chanting and interpretation of biblical passages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+059E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Gershayim |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x059E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000059E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u059e |