What ׅ means
It marks wording that drew special attention in the Hebrew Bible. Rabbinic writings discuss puncta extraordinaria by the second century CE. One explanation treats the dots as signs for wording considered for erasure. The Masoretic tradition, which preserved the Hebrew Bible’s text, kept them; rabbinic interpreters gave them significance.
Hebrew lower-dot rendering varies by edition and font. Vowel and chanting marks can crowd Psalm 27:13; some layouts need extra line spacing.
Specialist biblical notation, not a vowel point.
It does not mark a vowel.
Who writes ׅ
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Don't confuse it with
1Hiriq is a Hebrew vowel point; ׅ marks a textual tradition instead.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find ׅ
- Also called
- lower punctum · punctum extraordinarium
- Search it as
- Hebrew dot Psalm 27:13 · hiriq
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ׅ\05C5Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.