U+FB49 "שּ" Hebrew Letter Shin with Dagesh Unicode Character
U+FB49 "שּ" Hebrew Letter Shin with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Shin (ש) combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot inserted within the letter to indicate a phonetic change, typically signifying a "hard" or plosive pronunciation of the consonant, which in Hebrew distinguishes the sound /ʃ/ from any potential lenition or affects the reading of the letter in liturgical contexts. This character is part of the Unicode block Arabic Presentation Forms-A, as it was historically encoded for compatibility with older text processing systems that required separate codepoints for such vowel and consonant marking combinations, though in modern Hebrew typography the dagesh is usually represented by a combining mark (U+05BC) placed after the base letter. It is used in printed religious texts, such as the Tanakh or prayer books, where precise notation of pronunciation is important, and it appears in the context of Hebrew script where the dagesh modifies the letter's sound as part o
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB49 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Shin 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 | "ש" U+05E9 Hebrew Letter Shin "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | שּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | שּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB49 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb49 |