U+FB48 "רּ" Hebrew Letter Resh with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB48 "רּ" Hebrew Letter Resh with Dagesh is a precomposed typographic form used in the Hebrew script, specifically representing the letter Resh (ר) combined with a dagesh, a dot placed inside the letter to indicate a geminated or historically plosive pronunciation. This character belongs to the Unicode block "Alphabetic Presentation Forms," which was encoded to support legacy and aesthetic rendering of certain Hebrew letter combinations. In modern Israeli Hebrew, the dagesh in Resh does not significantly change its sound, which is typically pronounced as a voiced uvular fricative or approximant, but in liturgical or scholarly contexts it may be used to mark a historically doubled consonant or certain grammatical forms. As a presentation form, U+FB48 is often employed in typesetting to ensure correct visual alignment and to avoid the need for separate combining marks, making it useful for printed texts, digital fonts, and systems that require precise rendering of Hebrew script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB48 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Resh 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 | "ר" U+05E8 Hebrew Letter Resh "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | רּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | רּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb48 |