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U+05BC COMBINING MARK

HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ

Preview uses dotted circle base (◌) for visibility. Clipboard copy copies only the raw diacritic mark.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ
Code Point U+05BC
Decimal Value 1468
General Category Nonspacing Mark (Mn) →
Unicode Block Hebrew →
Script Hebrew →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D6 BC
UTF-16 Code Unit 05BC
UTF-32 4 bytes 000005BC
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 05 BC LE: BC 05
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 05 BC LE: BC 05 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ּ
HTML Hexadecimal ּ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \0005BC
JavaScript (ES6) \u05BC
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u05BC
JSON Escape \u05BC
Python \u05BC
PHP "\u{5BC}"
Java "\u05BC"
C / C++ "\u05BC"
Rust '\u{5bc}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D6%BC

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 21 — Class 21
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class NSM — Nonspacing Mark
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+05BC across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
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Context: A ◌ּ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
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Context: A ◌ּ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
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Context: A ◌ּ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A ◌ּ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+05BC

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