U+05A8 "֨" Hebrew Accent Qadma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05A8 "֨" Hebrew Accent Qadma is a cantillation mark used in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible, specifically belonging to the poetic book system for Psalms, Proverbs, and Job. Its name, Qadma, means "east" or "before" in Aramaic, and it functions as a conjunctive accent that connects the word it appears on to the following word, often grouped with the accent Telisha to create a melodic phrase. This mark is visually represented as a small, sloping horizontal stroke placed above the consonant of the accented syllable, and it plays a role in guiding the traditional chanting and grammatical parsing of Biblical Hebrew scripture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05A8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Qadma |
| 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05a8 |