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U+059C COMBINING MARK

HEBREW ACCENT GERESH

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

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HEBREW ACCENT GERESH
Code Point U+059C
Decimal Value 1436
General Category Nonspacing Mark (Mn) →
Unicode Block Hebrew →
Script Hebrew →
Unicode Version Unicode 2.0 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D6 9C
UTF-16 Code Unit 059C
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000059C
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 05 9C LE: 9C 05
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 05 9C LE: 9C 05 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ֜
HTML Hexadecimal ֜
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00059C
JavaScript (ES6) \u059C
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u059C
JSON Escape \u059C
Python \u059C
PHP "\u{59C}"
Java "\u059C"
C / C++ "\u059C"
Rust '\u{59c}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D6%9C

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 230Above (Acute, Grave, Tilde, etc.)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class NSMNonspacing Mark
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+059C across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name HEBREW ACCENT GERESH

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

Identifier U+059C

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