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U+05AF COMBINING MARK

HEBREW MARK MASORA CIRCLE

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

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HEBREW MARK MASORA CIRCLE
Code Point U+05AF
Decimal Value 1455
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 AF
UTF-16 Code Unit 05AF
UTF-32 4 bytes 000005AF
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 05 AF LE: AF 05
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 05 AF LE: AF 05 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ֯
HTML Hexadecimal ֯
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \0005AF
JavaScript (ES6) \u05AF
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u05AF
JSON Escape \u05AF
Python \u05AF
PHP "\u{5AF}"
Java "\u05AF"
C / C++ "\u05AF"
Rust '\u{5af}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D6%AF

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+05AF 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 MARK MASORA CIRCLE

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

Identifier U+05AF

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