U+05A2 "֢" Hebrew Accent Atnah Hafukh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05A2 "֢" Hebrew Accent Atnah Hafukh is a cantillation mark used in biblical Hebrew texts to denote a specific musical and syntactic pause, functioning as an alternative form of the standard Atnah accent but with a reversed or altered emphasis in its melodic rendering. It appears primarily in poetic or less common passages of the Hebrew Bible, where it guides readers in chanting and interpreting the syntax by indicating a secondary disjunctive break within a verse. This character belongs to the Hebrew script block and is encoded as a combining mark, meaning it is placed above or below a consonant letter to modify its vocalization and rhythm in liturgical recitation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05A2 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Atnah Hafukh |
| 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 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05a2 |