U+FB4B "וֹ" Hebrew Letter Vav with Holam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
וֹ
U+FB4B "וֹ" Hebrew Letter Vav with Holam is a presentation form of the Hebrew letter Vav that includes a precomposed holam, a dot placed above the letter to indicate the vowel sound "o". This character is categorized as an alphabetic presentation form, designed specifically for compatibility with certain Hebrew text processing systems that require the vowel mark to be integrated into a single glyph, rather than using a separate combining diacritic. It is used in writing Hebrew words where the Vav functions as a consonant or as a mater lectionis for the long "o" vowel, and its inclusion in Unicode helps ensure accurate representation and interchange of religious and modern Hebrew texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB4B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Vav with Holam |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ו" U+05D5 Hebrew Letter Vav "ֹ" U+05B9 Hebrew Point Holam |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | וֹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | וֹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb4b |