U+FB22 "ﬢ" Hebrew Letter Wide Dalet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB22 "ﬢ" Hebrew Letter Wide Dalet is a typographic variant of the standard Hebrew letter Dalet, encoded within the Unicode block for Alphabetic Presentation Forms. It is distinguished by its wider horizontal stroke, a design feature intended for use in certain liturgical or calligraphic contexts where a broader glyph is required for improved visual harmony, such as in Hebrew Bible manuscripts or ceremonial texts. This character represents the same consonant sound /d/ as the regular Dalet, but its usage is governed by specific typesetting traditions rather than by modern standard orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB22 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Wide Dalet |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ד" U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb22 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Hebrew Letter |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ד" U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ד" U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet |
| Script | Hebrew |
| Script Extensions | Hebrew |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Hebrew Letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |