dagesh or mapiq
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Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Dagesh
- Grapheme.script
- Hebrew alphabet
- Grapheme.type
- Abjad
- Grapheme.language
- Hebrew
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+05BC
- Grapheme.sisters
- Mappiq, shuruq dot
- Grapheme.associates
- bet, gimel, dalet, kaf, pe, tav
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
14 sectionsContents
- Dagesh qal<span class="anchor" id="Dagesh Kal"></span>
- Pronunciation
- Dagesh hazaq
- Rafe
- Pronunciation of modern Israeli Hebrew
- Matres lectionis
- Loanwords
- Pronunciation
- Unicode encodings
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
class=skin-invert-image|alt=Dagesh in Hebrew. The red dot on the rightmost character (the letter dalet) is a dagesh.|thumb|200x200px|The word in Hebrew. The red dot on the rightmost character (the letter [[dalet) is a dagesh.]]
The dagesh () is a diacritic that is used in the Hebrew alphabet. It takes the form of a dot placed inside a consonant.