HEBREW ACCENT TIPEHA character

HEBREW ACCENT TIPEHA
U+0596
1430
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Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
220
Hebrew
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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HEBREW ACCENT TIPEHA is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of HEBREW ACCENT TIPEHA is Nonspacing Mark (Weak). It belongs to the non-spacing marks, which take on the directionality of the characters to which they attach..

The Nonspacing Mark (NSM) bidi class is assigned to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but modify the preceding base character. NSMs are neutral in directionality but inherit the directionality of the base character they are attached to. They are essential for the accurate representation of characters with diacritics in bidirectional text.

Nonspacing Mark (Mn) refers to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but instead combine with a preceding base character to modify its sound or meaning. Nonspacing marks are essential in many scripts, including Latin, Arabic, and Devanagari, for accurate representation of text.

This character belongs to the Hebrew block. The Hebrew block includes characters used in the Hebrew script, one of the oldest writing systems still in use today. The Hebrew script is used primarily for writing Hebrew, but it is also used in liturgical texts for other Jewish languages such as Yiddish and Ladino. This block includes the 22 Hebrew letters, along with a few additional characters for final forms of certain letters and common punctuation marks. The script is written from right to left and is essential for religious texts, scholarly work, and modern Hebrew communication..