About Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf is the Unicode character ־ at codepoint U+05BE in the Hebrew block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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How to Use Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf
To use the Hebrew Punctuation Maqaf 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: '\5BE';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u05BE' evaluates to ־. In Python source, write '\u05BE'.
The character encodes to D6 BE as UTF-8 bytes and 05BE as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 1470.
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.