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U+059C · HEBREW ACCENT GERESH

Hebrew Accent Geresh

  • CodepointU+059C
  • NameHEBREW ACCENT GERESH
  • Decimal1436
  • BlockHebrew (U+0590–U+05FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptHebrew
  • CategoryMn — Nonspacing Mark
  • Unicode version2.0 (1996)
  • Bidi classNSM — Nonspacing Mark
  • Combining class230 — Above
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+059C (◌֜) is HEBREW ACCENT GERESH, a non-spacing combining mark in the Hebrew block. It belongs to the Hebrew script. It was added in Unicode 2.0 (1996).

As a combining mark it has no advance width of its own and attaches to the preceding base character. Type or paste the base letter first, then this mark. Its canonical combining class is 230 (Above), which normalization uses to order stacked marks. See combining diacritical marks.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D6 9C2 bytes
UTF-16059C1 code unit
UTF-320000059C4 bytes
HTML decimal֜
HTML hex֜
CSS\59Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u059C
JSON\u059C
Python\u059C
Python\N{HEBREW ACCENT GERESH}by name
Java / C#\u059C
C / C++\u059Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{59C}
Go\u059C
Ruby\u059C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1436)
URL-encoded%D6%9Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0301◌́Combining Acute Accent U+0341◌́Combining Acute Tone Mark U+059D◌֝Hebrew Accent Geresh Muqdam U+0618◌ؘArabic Small Fatha U+064E◌َArabic Fatha U+0954◌॔Devanagari Acute Accent U+0747◌݇Syriac Oblique Line Above
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Nearby in Hebrew

All in block →
U+0596◌֖Hebrew Accent Tipeha U+0597◌֗Hebrew Accent Revia U+0598◌֘Hebrew Accent Zarqa U+0599◌֙Hebrew Accent Pashta U+059A◌֚Hebrew Accent Yetiv U+059B◌֛Hebrew Accent Tevir U+059D◌֝Hebrew Accent Geresh Muqdam U+059E◌֞Hebrew Accent Gershayim U+059F◌֟Hebrew Accent Qarney Para U+05A0◌֠Hebrew Accent Telisha Gedola U+05A1◌֡Hebrew Accent Pazer U+05A2◌֢Hebrew Accent Atnah Hafukh