U+05BA "ֺ" Hebrew Point Holam Haser for Vav Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05BA "ֺ" Hebrew Point Holam Haser for Vav is a diacritical mark used in the Hebrew script to represent the vowel "o" in a specific context, specifically when it appears above the letter Vav (ו) to indicate a "holam haser" or "missing holam" vowel, which denotes a long "o" sound without following the usual orthographic convention of a full holam male with an additional Vav. This combining mark is part of the Unicode standard's Hebrew block and is employed in certain academic or liturgical texts to provide precise vowel notation, particularly in biblical Hebrew or scholarly transcriptions, ensuring clarity in pronunciation when the Vav functions as a consonant rather than as part of the vowel letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05BA |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Holam Haser for Vav |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC19 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ֺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ֺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05ba |