U+FB3B "כּ" Hebrew Letter Kaf with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB3B "כּ" Hebrew Letter Kaf with Dagesh is a typographic ligature representing the Hebrew letter Kaf (כ) when combined with a dagesh, a dot placed inside the letter to indicate a plosive pronunciation rather than a fricative one. This character is part of the Unicode block for alphabetic presentation forms specifically designed to support the traditional printing of Hebrew texts, where the dagesh is visually integrated into the letter shape for clarity. In modern standard Hebrew, the letter with dagesh produces the sound /k/ as in the English "kite," while its counterpart without the dot represents a softer /χ/ sound. This encoded form ensures accurate representation of liturgical and scholarly Hebrew documents where such orthographic distinctions are essential.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB3B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter 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 | "כ" U+05DB Hebrew Letter Kaf "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | כּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | כּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB3B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb3b |