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hebrew accent yetiv

Hebrew Accent Yetiv

Yetiv is one of the taamim, Hebrew cantillation marks that guide chant, stress, and phrasing. In Biblical Hebrew, it marks a phrase break; alone, it may disappear or shift.

Text symbol
Also called
Yethib
Search it as
taamim · trope · Mahpakh · Pashta
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What ֚ means

It marks a phrase break in Biblical Hebrew cantillation.

The Tiberian tradition places Yetiv before its word as a disjunctive accent, marking a phrase break. It may replace Pashta when first-syllable stress has no preceding conjunctive accent.

Babylonian, Palestinian, and Tiberian systems used different marks; Tiberian prevailed. Full Hebrew vocalization systems developed in the seventh and eighth centuries. The Aleppo Codex, a Tiberian Hebrew Bible manuscript, dates to c. 930. Yetiv needs a Hebrew letter; fonts and nearby vowel points affect its placement.

Technical notation for marked Biblical Hebrew, not everyday prose.

A lone Yetiv is a reading mark, not a Hebrew word.

Don't confuse it with

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Hebrew Accent Mahapakh
Yetiv vs Mahpakh: their similar angles hide different roles; Mahpakh joins a phrase, Yetiv separates one.

Questions people ask

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Why does ֚ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ֚

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 059A, then Alt+X to get ֚.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hebrew accent yetiv”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 059a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
֚
CSS
\059A
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
֚
HTML hex
֚
CSS content
content: "\059A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%D6%9A
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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