U+05A9 "֩" Hebrew Accent Telisha Qetana Unicode Character

U+05A9 "֩" Hebrew Accent Telisha Qetana is a cantillation mark used in Biblical Hebrew to indicate a specific melodic pattern for chanting scripture, functioning as a subordinate prepositive accent that typically appears above the consonant of the stressed syllable and signals a brief, rising tone in the Masoretic text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+05A9
Version Added	2.0
Name	Hebrew Accent Telisha Qetana
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 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x05A9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000005A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u05a9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Hebrew
Script Extensions	Hebrew
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend