U+05B0 Hebrew Point Sheva
U+05B0 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Hebrew script.
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+05B0 prohibits a line break before it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Shva or, in Biblical Hebrew, shĕwa (Hebrew: שְׁוָא) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign written as two vertical dots ( ְ ) beneath a letter. It indicates either the phoneme /ə/ (shva na', mobile shva) or the complete absence of a vowel (/Ø/) (shva naḥ, resting shva).
It is transliterated as ⟨e⟩, ⟨ĕ⟩, ⟨ə⟩, ⟨'⟩ (apostrophe), or nothing. Note that use of ⟨ə⟩ for shva is questionable: transliterating Modern Hebrew shva naḥ with ⟨ə⟩ is misleading, since it is never actually pronounced [ə] – the vowel [ə] does not exist in Modern Standard Hebrew. Moreover, the vowel [ə] is probably not characteristic of earlier pronunciations such as Tiberian vocalization.
A shva sign in combination with the vowel diacritics patáẖ, segól and kamáts katán produces a ẖatáf: a diacritic for a tnuʿá ẖatufá (a 'reduced vowel' – lit. 'abducted').
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1456 |
UTF-8 | D6 B0 |
UTF-16 | 05 B0 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 B0 |
URL-Quoted | %D6%B0 |
HTML hex reference | ְ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌ְ |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | C0 |
Adobe Glyph List | afii57799 |
Adobe Glyph List | sheva |
Adobe Glyph List | sheva115 |
Adobe Glyph List | sheva15 |
Adobe Glyph List | sheva22 |
Adobe Glyph List | sheva2e |
Adobe Glyph List | shevahebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | shevanarrowhebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | shevaquarterhebrew |
Adobe Glyph List | shevawidehebrew |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
HEBREW POINT SHEVA | |
— | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Hebrew | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Ccc10 | |
none | |
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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 | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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 |