U+FB41 "סּ" Hebrew Letter Samekh with Dagesh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
סּ
U+FB41 "סּ" Hebrew Letter Samekh with Dagesh is a precomposed typedographic variant of the Hebrew letter Samekh (ס) combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a change in pronunciation or grammatical function. This character belongs to the Unicode block Alphabetic Presentation Forms, which was designed to support specific visual forms required for accurate text rendering in historical or liturgical contexts. In standard modern Hebrew, the letter Samekh represents the voiceless alveolar fricative sound /s/, and the addition of a dagesh does not typically alter its pronunciation, though it may appear in certain manuscripts or printed texts for consistency or decorative purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB41 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Samekh 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 | "ס" U+05E1 Hebrew Letter Samekh "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | סּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | סּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB41 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb41 |