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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.
The Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet are found in the following tables. The Unicode Hebrew block extends from U+0590 to U+05FF and from U+FB1D to U+FB4F. It includes letters , ligatures , combining diacritical marks ( niqqud and cantillation marks) and punctuation .
[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.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hebrew on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hebrew in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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ISO 259-3 is Uzzi Ornan's romanization, which reached the stage of an ISO Final Draft [3] but not of a published International Standard (IS). [4] It is designed to deliver the common structure of the Hebrew word throughout the different dialects or pronunciation styles of Hebrew, in a way that it can be reconstructed into the original Hebrew characters by both man and machine.