U+FB29 "﬩" Hebrew Letter Alternative Plus Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
﬩
U+FB29 "﬩" Hebrew Letter Alternative Plus Sign is a typographic symbol used primarily in Hebrew texts to represent the mathematical plus sign while avoiding the visual resemblance to the Christian cross, which the standard plus sign "+" can evoke in certain cultural contexts. This character is encoded as a presentation form of the Hebrew letter tav, though it functions semantically as a plus sign, and it appears in religious or educational materials where sensitivity to iconography is important. It belongs to the Unicode block for alphabetic presentation forms, providing a distinct glyph for print and digital use that maintains the meaning of addition without religious connotations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB29 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Alternative Plus Sign |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Separator |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "+" U+002B Plus Sign |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB29 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb29 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "+" U+002B Plus Sign |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "+" U+002B Plus Sign |
| Script | Hebrew |
| Script Extensions | Hebrew |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |