U+05B3 "ֳ" Hebrew Point Hataf Qamats Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05B3 "ֳ" Hebrew Point Hataf Qamats is a diacritical mark used in the Hebrew script, specifically belonging to the niqqud system of vowel signs. It represents a reduced or "hataf" version of the qamats vowel, indicating a short "o" sound (like the "o" in "four") and is typically placed below a consonant letter to denote the vowel for that syllable. This character is part of a set of compound vowel points that combine a short shva with a full vowel sign, and it appears in biblical and liturgical texts where precise vocalization is required, though it is rarely used in modern Israeli Hebrew.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05B3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Hataf Qamats |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC13 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ֳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ֳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05b3 |