upper dot
Hebrew mark upper dot (U+05C4); punctum extraordinarium, large diamond-shaped dot marked above above all or most letters of an emphasized word, sometimes in combination with a lower dot on the same letters
Also known as U+05C4 · HEBREW MARK UPPER DOT · ׄ · upper dot · punctum extraordinarium
- Instance of
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- Unicode character name
- HEBREW MARK UPPER DOT
- HTML entity
- ׄ
- ׄ
- ׄ
- Has use
- emphasis
- Biblical Hebrew quotation: Genesis 16:5, 18:9, 19:33, 33:4, 37:12; Numbers 3:39, 9:10, 21:30, 29:15; Deuteronomy 29:28; 2 Samuel 19:20; Isaiah 44:9; Ezekiel 41:20, 46:22; Psalm 27:13