U+0596 Hebrew Accent Tipeha
U+0596 was added in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996. It belongs to the block
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Hebrew script. The character is also known as tarha and me'ayla ~ mayla.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0596 prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Tifcha (Hebrew: טִפְחָ֖א, also spelled Tifkha, Tipcha and other variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books that are chanted. In Sephardic and Oriental traditions, it is called Tarcha, meaning "dragging" or "effort".
The Tifcha is found in both the Etnachta group as the second member of that group, and in the Sof passuk group, though the melody varies slightly in each. While it is a weak sound, it is considered to be stronger than a Tevir
The Hebrew word טִפְחָ֖א translates into English as diagonal. It is related to the word tefach (טפח, measurement of the palm). The tifcha does not have a separating value of its own, as it is in the middle of a set of words.
Tifcha occurs in the Torah 11,285 times, more than any other trope sound. Tifcha is the only trope sound to appear more than 10,000 times in the Torah.
The first word of the Torah בראשית (Bereshit) is on a Tifcha.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1430 |
UTF-8 | D6 96 |
UTF-16 | 05 96 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 96 |
URL-Quoted | %D6%96 |
HTML hex reference | ֖ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌֖ |
alias | tarha |
alias | me'ayla ~ mayla |
Adobe Glyph List | tipehahebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | tipehalefthebrew |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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2.0 (1996) | |
HEBREW ACCENT TIPEHA | |
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Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Below | |
none | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Transparent | |
Combining Mark | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |