U+FB47 "קּ" Hebrew Letter Qof with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB47 "קּ" Hebrew Letter Qof with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Qof, which is the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, combined with a dagesh, a dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hardened or geminated pronunciation. This character is part of the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block in Unicode, specifically designed to support text with diacritical marks like the dagesh, which in the case of Qof typically denotes a plosive "k" sound as opposed to the fricative sound it can have in some contexts. Historically, its encoding simplifies the representation of Hebrew text with these marks for better compatibility with legacy systems and digital fonts, allowing for accurate rendering in religious, linguistic, and scholarly contexts where precise pronunciation is important.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB47 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Qof 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 | "ק" U+05E7 Hebrew Letter Qof "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | קּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | קּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB47 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB47 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb47 |