U+FB3A "ךּ" Hebrew Letter Final Kaf with Dagesh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB3A "ךּ" Hebrew Letter Final Kaf with Dagesh is a precomposed representation of the Hebrew letter Kaf in its final form, used exclusively at the end of a word, combined with a dagesh, a dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hardened pronunciation. This glyph simplifies the typographic representation of the letter in certain contexts where the dagesh modifies the sound from a fricative to a plosive, as in the k sound versus the kh sound, though in modern Hebrew, the distinction is often not strictly maintained. It belongs to the Unicode block for alphabetic presentation forms, designed to preserve the visual integrity of the character in specific digital environments or legacy text handling systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB3A
Version Added 1.1
Name Hebrew Letter Final Kaf 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 "ך" U+05DA Hebrew Letter Final Kaf
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ךּ
HTML Hex Encoding ךּ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAC 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB3A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB3A
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb3a

Unicode Properties

Composition Exclusion Yes
Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hebrew Letter
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ך" U+05DA Hebrew Letter Final Kaf
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
NFKC Simple Casefold "ך" U+05DA Hebrew Letter Final Kaf
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
Script Hebrew
Script Extensions Hebrew
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Hebrew Letter
Sentence Break OLetter