About Hebrew Point Qamats
Hebrew Point Qamats is the Unicode character ָ at codepoint U+05B8 in the Hebrew block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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How to Use Hebrew Point Qamats
To use the Hebrew Point Qamats symbol (ָ) in HTML, insert the
entity ָ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ָ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\5B8';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u05B8' evaluates to ָ. In Python source, write '\u05B8'.
The character encodes to D6 B8 as UTF-8 bytes and 05B8 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 1464.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.