U+FB2B "שׂ" Hebrew Letter Shin with Sin Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
שׂ
U+FB2B "שׂ" Hebrew Letter Shin with Sin Dot is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Shin that incorporates a diacritical dot placed over its left arm, distinguishing it as the letter Sin, which is pronounced as an "s" sound rather than the "sh" sound of a standard Shin. This character belongs to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block of Unicode, which provides compatibility representations for certain typographic contexts, often used in printed texts like religious scriptures or formal documents to ensure precise rendering of the dot without relying on combining marks. It is particularly important in Biblical Hebrew and liturgical contexts where the exact phonetic value of the letter must be clearly indicated.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB2B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Shin with Sin 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+05C2 Hebrew Point Sin Dot |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | שׂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | שׂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb2b |