U+FB2D "שּׂ" Hebrew Letter Shin with Dagesh and Sin Dot Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB2D "שּׂ" Hebrew Letter Shin with Dagesh and Sin Dot is a precomposed Hebrew typographic ligature used primarily in liturgical or biblical texts to represent the Hebrew letter shin with both a dagesh (a dot placed inside the letter indicating a plosive pronunciation or gemination) and a sin dot, which is placed over the left arm of the letter to specify the "sin" sound (/s/) rather than the "shin" sound. This complex character is encoded in the Unicode standard's Alphabetic Presentation Forms block to support accurate rendering of foundational Hebrew manuscripts and prayer books where such diacritic combinations must appear as a single, unambiguous glyph for precise textual fidelity.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB2D
Version Added 1.1
Name Hebrew Letter Shin with Dagesh and 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 "שּ" U+FB49 Hebrew Letter Shin with Dagesh
"ׂ" U+05C2 Hebrew Point Sin Dot

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding שּׂ
HTML Hex Encoding שּׂ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAC 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB2D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB2D
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb2d

Unicode Properties

Composition Exclusion Yes
Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hebrew Letter
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ש" U+05E9 Hebrew Letter Shin
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
"ׂ" U+05C2 Hebrew Point Sin Dot
NFKC Simple Casefold "ש" U+05E9 Hebrew Letter Shin
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
"ׂ" U+05C2 Hebrew Point Sin Dot
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