U+05B0 "ְ" Hebrew Point Sheva Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05B0 "ְ" Hebrew Point Sheva is a combining diacritical mark used in the Hebrew writing system, specifically within the Masoretic text tradition of the Hebrew Bible. It appears as a small vertical pair of dots placed below a consonant letter, and it serves primarily to represent either a very short, neutral vowel sound known as a "sheva na" (mobile sheva), which is pronounced as a fleeting /e/ or schwa, or a silent, zero-vowel "sheva nach" that indicates the consonant has no following vowel. Its correct interpretation relies heavily on the linguistic context and the syllable structure of the word, making it an essential but often challenging element for reading biblical Hebrew.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05B0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Sheva |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC10 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ְ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ְ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05b0 |