U+FB35 "וּ" Hebrew Letter Vav with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB35 "וּ" Hebrew Letter Vav with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Vav combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hard pronunciation, typically representing the consonant /v/ in modern Hebrew or historically signifying gemination. This character falls within the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block of Unicode, which provides precomposed versions of letters with diacritics for compatibility with older text encoding systems and for more precise typographic rendering. In Hebrew text, this character is used primarily to denote the vav as a consonant rather than as a vowel marker, distinguishing it from the plain vav that can represent the vowel sounds /o/ or /u/ in certain contexts. Because it is a precomposed character, it may be encoded either as U+FB35 or as the sequence of a plain Vav (U+05D5) followed by a combining dagesh (U+05BC), with the choice depending on the expected processing system or desired consistency in text represent
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB35 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Vav 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 | "ו" U+05D5 Hebrew Letter Vav "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | וּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | וּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB35 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB35 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb35 |