U+FB3E "מּ" Hebrew Letter Mem with Dagesh Unicode Character

U+FB3E "מּ" Hebrew Letter Mem with Dagesh is a precomposed variant of the Hebrew letter mem that includes a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a hard, plosive pronunciation or a geminated consonant in certain contexts. This character is part of the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, which was created for compatibility with older text encoding systems and allows for simpler rendering in environments that do not support combining character sequences. In modern Hebrew, the letter mem with a dagesh typically represents the sound "m" as in English, but the dagesh may also appear in liturgical or scholarly texts to mark grammatical or phonological distinctions, such as in the biblical Hebrew verb system. While Unicode standard text often recommends using the base letter mem (U+05DE) followed by the combining dagesh (U+05BC), U+FB3E remains available for interoperability with legacy fonts and documents.