U+FB22 "ﬢ" Hebrew Letter Wide Dalet Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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