U+05BB "ֻ" Hebrew Point Qubuts Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05BB "ֻ" Hebrew Point Qubuts is a diacritical mark used in the Hebrew writing system, classified as a niqqud or vowel point. It represents the short 'u' vowel sound and is typically placed below a consonant letter to indicate that it is followed by that specific vowel. In modern Hebrew, Qubuts is visually identical to the shuruk point, but it differs in usage: while shuruk is placed inside the letter Vav to form a long 'u', Qubuts is a standalone dot positioned under any consonant to denote a short 'u'. This character is encoded for digital text to accurately represent biblical and liturgical Hebrew as well as certain modern contexts where precise vowelization is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05BB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Qubuts |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC20 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ֻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ֻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05bb |