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U+05B8 · HEBREW POINT QAMATS

Hebrew Point Qamats

  • CodepointU+05B8
  • NameHEBREW POINT QAMATS
  • Decimal1464
  • BlockHebrew (U+0590–U+05FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptHebrew
  • CategoryMn — Nonspacing Mark
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classNSM — Nonspacing Mark
  • Combining class18
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+05B8 (◌ָ) is HEBREW POINT QAMATS, a non-spacing combining mark in the Hebrew block. It belongs to the Hebrew script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

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 18, 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 B82 bytes
UTF-1605B81 code unit
UTF-32000005B84 bytes
HTML decimalָ
HTML hexָ
CSS\5B8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u05B8
JSON\u05B8
Python\u05B8
Python\N{HEBREW POINT QAMATS}by name
Java / C#\u05B8
C / C++\u05B8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{5B8}
Go\u05B8
Ruby\u05B8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1464)
URL-encoded%D6%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Characters built on ◌ָ

U+FB2FאָHebrew Letter Alef with Qamats
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Nearby in Hebrew

All in block →
U+05B2◌ֲHebrew Point Hataf Patah U+05B3◌ֳHebrew Point Hataf Qamats U+05B4◌ִHebrew Point Hiriq U+05B5◌ֵHebrew Point Tsere U+05B6◌ֶHebrew Point Segol U+05B7◌ַHebrew Point Patah U+05B9◌ֹHebrew Point Holam U+05BA◌ֺHebrew Point Holam Haser for Vav U+05BB◌ֻHebrew Point Qubuts U+05BC◌ּHebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq U+05BD◌ֽHebrew Point Meteg U+05BE־Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf