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Geresh (׳ in Hebrew: גֶּרֶשׁ [1] or גֵּרֶשׁ [2] [3], or medieval [ˈɡeːɾeːʃ]) is a sign in Hebrew writing. It has two meanings. An apostrophe-like sign (also known colloquially as a chupchik) [4] placed after a letter: as a diacritic that modifies the pronunciation of some letters (only in modern Hebrew),
The gershayim ״ , is a Hebrew symbol indicating that a sequence of characters is an acronym, and is placed before the last character of the word. Owing to a Hebrew keyboard 's having neither a geresh nor gershayim , they are usually replaced online with, respectively, the visually similar apostrophe ' and quotation mark " .
The sounds , , , written צ׳ , ג׳ , ז׳ , and , non-standardly sometimes transliterated וו , are often found in slang and loanwords that are part of the everyday Hebrew colloquial vocabulary. The symbol resembling an apostrophe after the Hebrew letter modifies the pronunciation of the letter and is called a geresh.
[1] [2] This layout is also known as arkn (Hebrew: ארקן) after the four consecutive keys in the top left of the keyboard. It is mostly identical to the SI-1452 layout, with the following changes: [3] The punctuation marks period (.), comma (,), apostrophe (') and forward slash (/) have been moved to the same position as on a QWERTY keyboard.
When followed by an apostrophe, it means 9,000. The most common example of this usage is in the numbers of the Hebrew years (e.g., ט'תשנד in numbers would be the date 9754). As well, in gematria, the number 15 is written with Tet and Vav, (9+6) to avoid the normal construction Yud and Hei (10+5) which spells a name of God.
Most keyboards do not have a key for the gershayim punctuation; as a result, a quotation mark is often substituted for it. The cantillation accent however is generally not typed, as it plays a completely different role and can occur in the middle of words (it does not mark any word separation), or marked using a different interlinear notation if needed (such as superscripts or other notational ...
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Chemical symbol – Abbreviations used in chemistry; Chinese punctuation – Punctuation used with Chinese characters; Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent a monetary currency's name; Diacritic – Modifier mark added to a letter (accent marks etc.) Hebrew punctuation – Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time