U+05BD "ֽ" Hebrew Point Meteg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05BD "ֽ" Hebrew Point Meteg is a diacritical mark used in Biblical Hebrew text, functioning as a cantillation accent rather than a vowel indicator. Positioned beneath or alongside a consonant, it serves to denote a secondary stress or a slight pause in the word's pronunciation, often appearing in longer words to guide the reader in accurate chanting or recitation. This mark, which resembles a small vertical line, is part of the Masoretic system of accents developed by Jewish scribes to preserve the ancient Hebrew Bible's oral tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05BD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Meteg |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC22 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ֽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ֽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05bd |