U+05F3 "׳" Hebrew Punctuation Geresh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05F3 "׳" Hebrew Punctuation Geresh is a diacritic mark in the Hebrew script that primarily functions as an apostrophe-like symbol to indicate a phonetic alteration or to denote the abbreviation of a word, such as in the construction of acronyms. It can also appear alongside certain letters to create loanwords or foreign sounds, for example by combining with the letter "צ" to represent the /ʧ/ sound, as in the English "chip" adapted into Hebrew. Additionally, it is used in the Hebrew calendar for numeric representations, like "׳תשפ׳ד" for the year 5784, and it should not be confused with the similar-looking single quotation mark, as it has a distinct orthographic role in the Hebrew writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05F3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Punctuation Geresh |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ׳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ׳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05f3 |
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 | Alphabetic |
| Script | Hebrew |
| Script Extensions | Hebrew |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |