U+FB28 "ﬨ" Hebrew Letter Wide Tav Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB28 "ﬨ" Hebrew Letter Wide Tav is a typographic variant of the standard Hebrew letter Tav, specifically designed to be wider for use in justified text or stylistic contexts within certain Hebrew manuscripts and printed works. This character falls under the "Alphabetic Presentation Forms" block, which contains specialized ligatures and contextual forms that are not part of the basic Hebrew alphabet but serve to preserve traditional typesetting practices. While it represents the same sound and function as the regular Tav, its wider appearance helps maintain uniform spacing and visual harmony in lines of text, making it a niche but important character for accurate digital reproduction of historical or liturgical Hebrew documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB28 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Wide Tav |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ת" U+05EA Hebrew Letter Tav |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb28 |
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 | "ת" U+05EA Hebrew Letter Tav |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ת" U+05EA Hebrew Letter Tav |
| 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 |