U+FB36 "זּ" Hebrew Letter Zayin with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB36 "זּ" Hebrew Letter Zayin with Dagesh is a precomposed typographic form used in Hebrew script, representing the letter Zayin (ז) combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hard, plosive pronunciation (historically a geminated or emphasized sound) as opposed to the fricative variant. This character belongs to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block of Unicode, which exists primarily to support legacy encoding systems and provides a single code point for these combined forms, though in modern digital text the separate base letter and combining dagesh (U+05D6 followed by U+05BC) are generally preferred. Its usage is largely historical or limited to specific contexts where exact visual reproduction of older printed Hebrew texts is required, such as in religious manuscripts or certain typesetting conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB36 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Zayin 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 | "ז" U+05D6 Hebrew Letter Zayin "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | זּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | זּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB36 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb36 |