U+05BF "ֿ" Hebrew Point Rafe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05BF "ֿ" Hebrew Point Rafe is a diacritical mark used in the Hebrew script, historically indicating that a consonant is pronounced softly or without dagesh, often signifying fricative articulation for letters like Bet, Kaf, and Pe. It appears as a small horizontal line placed above a letter, though in modern Hebrew its use is largely limited to liturgical contexts, such as in the pronunciation of certain Hebrew Bible texts or in scholarly transcriptions, and it is distinct from the similar-looking but unrelated marks in other writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05BF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Point Rafe |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC23 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ֿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ֿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD6 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05bf |