U+05BE "־" Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05BE "־" Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf is a horizontal bar used in Hebrew writing as a hyphen-like connector, primarily to join words or parts of words in compound terms, similar to a hyphen in English, though it is placed higher than a typical hyphen and aligns with the top of the Hebrew letters rather than the baseline. It appears in contexts such as linking numbers to words, forming certain grammatical constructs, or connecting elements in poetry and biblical text, and is distinct from other dash-like characters in Unicode to ensure proper typographic rendering in Hebrew script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05BE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Dash Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ־ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ־ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05be |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Unambiguous Hyphen |
| Script | Hebrew |
| Script Extensions | Hebrew |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Dash | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |