U+FB44 "פּ" Hebrew Letter Pe with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB44 "פּ" Hebrew Letter Pe with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Pe, which represents the sound /p/, combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a plosive pronunciation as opposed to the fricative /f/ sound of the plain letter Pe. This character is part of the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block and is used primarily in liturgical or formal Hebrew texts, such as the Bible or prayer books, where precise orthography is required to differentiate between the hard and soft versions of the letter. It is visually distinct from the base form of Pe and is encoded for compatibility with older text systems, though in modern digital use it is often represented as the base letter Pe followed by a combining dagesh mark.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB44 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Pe 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 | "פ" U+05E4 Hebrew Letter Pe "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | פּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | פּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb44 |