dagesh or mapiq
Sign in to saveAlso known as U+05BC, HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ, dagesh, mapiq, shuruq, shuruk
class=skin-invert-image|alt=Dagesh in Hebrew. The red dot on the rightmost character (the letter dalet) is a dagesh.|thumb|200x200px|The word in Hebrew. The red dot on the rightmost character (the letter [[dalet) is a dagesh.]]
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Within Vinony's link graph, dagesh or mapiq is referenced by 141 other articles, and connects out to Hebrew, Judaeo-Spanish and plosive consonant.
It is catalogued under the topic Niqqud.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Dagesh
- Grapheme.script
- Hebrew alphabet
- Grapheme.type
- Abjad
- Grapheme.language
- Hebrew
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+05BC
- Grapheme.sisters
- Mappiq, shuruq dot
- Grapheme.associates
- bet, gimel, dalet, kaf, pe, tav
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Tiberian vocalization
- Subclass of
- diacritic
- Depicts
- shuruk
- Image
- Nikud dagesh modified.svg
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- opposite of
- ◌◌ֿ
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- Unicode code point
- 05BC
- Unicode character
- ּ
- Unicode block
- Hebrew
- Unicode character name
- HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ
- HTML entity
- ּ
- Commons category
- Dagesh or mapiq
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Dagesh qal<span class="anchor" id="Dagesh Kal"></span>
- Pronunciation
- Dagesh hazaq
- Rafe
- Pronunciation of modern Israeli Hebrew
- Matres lectionis
- Loanwords
- Pronunciation
- Unicode encodings
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
class=skin-invert-image|alt=Dagesh in Hebrew. The red dot on the rightmost character (the letter dalet) is a dagesh.|thumb|200x200px|The word in Hebrew. The red dot on the rightmost character (the letter [[dalet) is a dagesh.]]
The dagesh () is a diacritic that is used in the Hebrew alphabet. It takes the form of a dot placed inside a consonant.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dagesh or mapiq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.