U+FB40 "נּ" Hebrew Letter Nun with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB40 "נּ" Hebrew Letter Nun with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Nun, which represents the sound /n/, combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate either a geminated or a plosive pronunciation, though in modern Hebrew the dagesh primarily affects pronunciation for letters like Bet, Kaf, and Pe, while for Nun it typically marks emphasis in historical or liturgical contexts. This character falls within the Unicode block Hebrew Presentation Forms (U+FB1D to U+FB4F), a range designed to encode ligatures or orthographic variations for backward compatibility with older text encoding systems, and it is used in printed Hebrew texts, such as biblical manuscripts or prayer books, to ensure precise representation of traditional vowel and consonant markings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB40 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Nun 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 | "נ" U+05E0 Hebrew Letter Nun "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | נּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | נּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb40 |