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A Hebrew period in a traditional serif face usually looks like a tiny tilted square (a diamond; ). This is also true for the dot part of the question mark, and exclamation mark. In Arabic, which is also written from right to left, the question mark ؟ is mirrored right-to-left from the Latin question mark.
Hebrew diacritics. Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected". Letters in black, pointing in red, cantillation in blue[1] Hebrew orthography includes three types of diacritics: Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs. Since the vowels can be understood ...
Gershayim most commonly refers to the punctuation mark ״ . It is always written before the last letter of the non-inflected form of a word or numeral. It is used in the following ways: To indicate a Hebrew acronym. [2] For example: דּוּ״חַ (singular), דּוּ״חוֹת (plural), "report" represents דין וחשבון ; and ...
The symbol ״ is called a gershayim and is a punctuation mark used in the Hebrew language to denote acronyms. It is written before the last letter in the acronym, e.g. ר״ת . Gershayim is also the name of a cantillation mark in the reading of the Torah , printed above the accented letter, e.g. א֞ .
Geresh (׳ in Hebrew: גֶּרֶשׁ [1] or גֵּרֶשׁ [2][3] [ˈɡeʁeʃ], 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 ...
אֲהֵבֽוּךָ, Meteg (or meseg or metheg, Hebrew: מֶתֶג , lit. 'bridle', also gaʿya גַּעְיָה , lit. 'bellowing', מַאֲרִיךְ maʾarikh, or מַעֲמִיד maʿamid) is a punctuation mark used in Biblical Hebrew for stress marking. It is a vertical bar placed under the affected syllable.
Although the Yiddish punctuation mark is termed an אַפּאָסטראָף (apostrof) the character used to represent it is the Hebrew geresh, which differs both in its graphic appearance and, more importantly, in its digital representation. (The APOSTROPHE is U+0027, and the HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH is U+05F3.) What is termed a double ...
Certain Hebrew punctuation, such as the geresh, gershayim, maqaf, pesiq, sof pasuq, and cantillation marks, are not accessible through the standard Hebrew keyboard layout. As a result, similar looking punctuation is often used instead.