U+FB38 "טּ" Hebrew Letter Tet with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB38 "טּ" Hebrew Letter Tet with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter tet (ט) combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hardened or geminated pronunciation. This character is part of the Unicode block for Alphabetic Presentation Forms, which includes various ligatures and precomposed Hebrew letters for compatibility with older text encoding systems. In standard modern Hebrew usage, the letter tet represents the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/, and the dagesh does not typically alter this sound, though in some historical or liturgical contexts it may denote a geminated or doubled consonant. The precomposed form is primarily utilized in digital text to preserve the visual appearance of certain printed or manuscript traditions without relying on separate combining marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB38 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Tet 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 | "ט" U+05D8 Hebrew Letter Tet "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | טּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | טּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb38 |