U+05B4 "ִ" Hebrew Point Hiriq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05B4 "ִ" Hebrew Point Hiriq is a combining diacritical mark used in the Hebrew script to represent the vowel sound /i/, similar to the "ee" in "see". Positioned as a small dot directly beneath a consonant letter, it is one of the several niqqud symbols that indicate vowels in pointed Hebrew texts, such as in the Bible, poetry, or language learning materials, where these marks clarify pronunciation. An example of its use is in the word "אִמָּא" (ima), meaning mother, where the Hiriq appears under the first letter, aleph (א), to denote the initial "i" sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05B4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Hiriq |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC14 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ִ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ִ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05b4 |