U+FB31 "בּ" Hebrew Letter Bet with Dagesh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
בּ
U+FB31 "בּ" Hebrew Letter Bet with Dagesh is a presentation form of the Hebrew letter Bet that includes a dot, or dagesh, placed inside its center. This dagesh indicates a hardened or plosive pronunciation of the letter, distinguishing it from the fricative sound of a Bet without a dagesh, which is pronounced as "v" rather than "b". The character is used in Hebrew text to ensure accurate typographic representation, particularly in contexts where the dagesh is essential for correct reading and interpretation, such as in biblical or liturgical settings. As a precomposed form in Unicode, it simplifies text rendering by combining the base letter and the diacritical mark into a single glyph for consistent display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB31 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Bet with Dagesh |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ב" U+05D1 Hebrew Letter Bet "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | בּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | בּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB31 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb31 |