U+05A8 "֨" Hebrew Accent Qadma Unicode Character

U+05A8 "֨" Hebrew Accent Qadma is a cantillation mark used in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible, specifically belonging to the poetic book system for Psalms, Proverbs, and Job. Its name, Qadma, means "east" or "before" in Aramaic, and it functions as a conjunctive accent that connects the word it appears on to the following word, often grouped with the accent Telisha to create a melodic phrase. This mark is visually represented as a small, sloping horizontal stroke placed above the consonant of the accented syllable, and it plays a role in guiding the traditional chanting and grammatical parsing of Biblical Hebrew scripture.