U+05AB "֫" Hebrew Accent Ole Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05AB "֫" Hebrew Accent Ole is a diacritical mark used in the Hebrew Bible, specifically within the Masoretic cantillation system, to indicate a specific musical note or trope for the liturgical chanting of scripture. Known as the Ole, this accent is typically placed above the stressed syllable of a word and functions as a conjunctive accent, linking the word to the following one in a phrase without a pause, often appearing in combination with the Yored accent to form a unified melodic unit. Its role is both musical and syntactic, helping to convey the proper phrasing and intonation prescribed by tradition for the public reading of the Tanakh.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05AB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Accent Ole |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05ab |