U+FB2A "שׁ" Hebrew Letter Shin with Shin Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
שׁ
U+FB2A "שׁ" Hebrew Letter Shin with Shin Dot is a precomposed form used in Hebrew text to represent the letter Shin (ש) with the dot that marks it specifically as a Shin, pronounced with the "sh" sound, as opposed to the Sin with the "s" sound. This character is part of the Unicode block for alphabetic presentation forms, included to simplify text rendering and enable legacy encoding compatibility, and it appears in contexts where precise diacritic marking is needed, such as in biblical texts, liturgical writings, or language learning materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB2A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Shin with Shin Dot |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ש" U+05E9 Hebrew Letter Shin "ׁ" U+05C1 Hebrew Point Shin Dot |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | שׁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | שׁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb2a |