U+FB4A "תּ" Hebrew Letter Tav with Dagesh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
תּ
U+FB4A "תּ" Hebrew Letter Tav with Dagesh is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Tav (ת) combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hard, plosive pronunciation or to mark gemination in certain contexts. This character is part of the Unicode block for Alphabetic Presentation Forms, which was created to support legacy text encoding and ensure proper rendering of typographic ligatures in Hebrew script. In modern Hebrew, the dagesh does not typically alter the pronunciation of Tav, which is generally pronounced as /t/, but the character remains important for accurate representation of liturgical or Biblical texts where the dot carries phonetic or grammatical significance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB4A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Tav 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 | "ת" U+05EA Hebrew Letter Tav "ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | תּ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | תּ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb4a |