U+FB46 "צּ" Hebrew Letter Tsadi with Dagesh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB46 "צּ" Hebrew Letter Tsadi with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter tsadi (צ) combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hardened or geminated pronunciation. This character belongs to the Unicode block "Alphabetic Presentation Forms," which was created to support legacy encoding systems and simplify text rendering for certain scripts. In Hebrew, the dagesh can modify the sound of the tsadi, though in modern usage, the distinction is often phonetic or historical. The glyph typically appears with the dot centered within the letter, and its standard Unicode name reflects both the base character and the diacritic.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB46
Version Added 1.1
Name Hebrew Letter Tsadi 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 "צ" U+05E6 Hebrew Letter Tsadi
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding צּ
HTML Hex Encoding צּ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAD 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB46
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB46
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb46

Unicode Properties

Composition Exclusion Yes
Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hebrew Letter
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "צ" U+05E6 Hebrew Letter Tsadi
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
NFKC Simple Casefold "צ" U+05E6 Hebrew Letter Tsadi
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
Script Hebrew
Script Extensions Hebrew
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Hebrew Letter
Sentence Break OLetter