U+05B1 "ֱ" Hebrew Point Hataf Segol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05B1 "ֱ" Hebrew Point Hataf Segol is a combining diacritical mark used in Hebrew biblical texts to indicate a specific vowel sound. It belongs to the niqqud system, which aids in pronunciation and is often applied below the base consonant to denote a short “e” sound. This character represents a reduced segol, known as a hataf vowel, which occurs primarily in unstressed syllables and helps clarify the precise phonetic rendering of words in liturgical or scholarly contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05B1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Hataf Segol |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC11 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ֱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ֱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05B1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05b1 |