U+FB3E "מּ" Hebrew Letter Mem with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB3E "מּ" Hebrew Letter Mem with Dagesh is a precomposed variant of the Hebrew letter mem that includes a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hard, plosive pronunciation or a geminated consonant in certain contexts. This character is part of the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, which was created for compatibility with older text encoding systems and allows for simpler rendering in environments that do not support combining character sequences. In modern Hebrew, the letter mem with a dagesh typically represents the sound "m" as in English, but the dagesh may also appear in liturgical or scholarly texts to mark grammatical or phonological distinctions, such as in the biblical Hebrew verb system. While Unicode standard text often recommends using the base letter mem (U+05DE) followed by the combining dagesh (U+05BC), U+FB3E remains available for interoperability with legacy fonts and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB3E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Mem 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 | "מ" U+05DE Hebrew Letter Mem "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | מּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | מּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb3e |