U+FB39 "יּ" Hebrew Letter Yod with Dagesh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
יּ
U+FB39 "יּ" Hebrew Letter Yod with Dagesh is a precomposed ligature form of the Hebrew letter yod, which is the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, combined with a dot inside it called a dagesh. This dagesh typically indicates a gemination or a hard pronunciation of the consonant, though in modern Hebrew the letter yod generally represents the consonant sound "y" and the dagesh does not change this sound in colloquial speech. The character is part of the Unicode "Alphabetic Presentation Forms" block, designed to support efficient text rendering in Hebrew and other Semitic scripts, ensuring that the combined diacritical mark is displayed correctly without relying on separate character combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB39 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Yod 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 | "י" U+05D9 Hebrew Letter Yod "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | יּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | יּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb39 |