U+05BC "ּ" Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05BC "ּ" Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq is a combining diacritical mark used in the Hebrew alphabet to modify the pronunciation of a base consonant. When functioning as a Dagesh, it appears within letters like Bet, Gimel, or Dalet to indicate a plosive rather than a fricative sound, such as the hard "b" in "bet" versus the soft "v" in "vet." As a Mapiq, it is placed inside the letter He at the end of a word to mark it as a consonant pronounced with a distinct "h" sound, rather than a silent vowel letter. This single glyph, when applied to different characters, enables precise phonetic representation in biblical and modern Hebrew texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05BC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hebrew Point Dagesh |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC21 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05bc |