Hebrew word senses marked with topical category "Symbols"

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Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Diacritical marks, Punctuation marks

Total 60 word senses

• ְ (Character) See nikud point schwa. See also שווא.
• ֱ (Character) The niqqud point ḥataf segol. See also חטף סגול.
• ֲ (Character) The niqqud point ḥaṭaf pataḥ. See also חטף פתח.
• ֳ (Character) The niqqud point ḥaṭaf qamatz. See also חטף קמץ.
• ִ (Character) The niqqud point hiriq. See also חיריק.
• ֵ (Character) The niqqud point tzere. See also צירי.
• ֶ (Character) See niqqud point segol. See also סגול.
• ַ (Character) The niqqud point pataḥ.
• ֹ (Character) See niqqud point ḥolam. See also חולם.
• ֺ (Character) Variant of ◌ֹ (holam) used only with ו to indicate that the base letter is a consonant (i.e. v), as opposed to a mater lectionis (placeholder for a vowel).
• ֻ (Character) See nikud point kubutz. See also קובוץ.
• ּ (Character) dagesh, used to denote a geminated consonant (dagesh khazak or dagesh forte), or a consonant pronounced as a plosive as opposed to as a fricative (dagesh kal or dagesh lene).
• ּ (Character) mappiq or mapiq, used to indicate that the letters ה or א are to be pronounced as consonants in positions where they usually indicate a vowel.
• ּ (Character) shuruk sign, used with ו to indicate the long u vowel sound.
• ֽ (Character) silluq, a disjunctive cantillation mark used on the last word of a verse that marks a pause
• ֽ (Character) meteg, used to mark secondary stress
• ֽ (Character) meteg, used to mark a long vowel (and indirectly marks that a syllable is open and that a following shva is vocal)
• ֽ (Character) meteg, used to mark primary stress
• ֿ (Character) The niqqud point rafe. See also רפה. Mainly used in Yiddish text to indicate the absence of a dagesh kal.
• ׃ (Punctuation) Used to signify the end of a passage, such as a verse from Scripture.
• אמפרסנד (Noun) ampersand (the symbol "&")
• גג (Noun) circumflex
• גל (Noun) tilde (the diacritical mark ~)
• גרשיים (Noun) The ״ symbol, which is placed between the last two letters of a multi-letter acronym, initialism, or other abbreviation.
• גרשיים (Noun) The double-quote mark ", when used as a typographically simpler substitute for ״.
• דגש (Noun) dagesh (a symbol used in Hebrew script to denote a geminated consonant, or a consonant pronounced as a plosive as opposed to as a fricative) (ִ◌ּ)
• חולם (Noun) holam (a Hebrew nikud vowel sign represented by a dot above the upper-left corner of the consonant letter) ( ִ◌ֹ).
• חטף סגול (Noun) The Hebrew diacritical mark khataf segol (ִ◌ֱ).
• חטף פתח (Noun) The Hebrew diacritical mark khataf patakh (ִ◌ֲ).
• חטף קמץ (Noun) The Hebrew diacritical mark khataf kamats (ִ◌ֳ).
• חיריק (Noun) hiriq (a Hebrew nikud vowel sign, a dot written beneath a letter) (ִ◌ִ).
• חץ (Noun) arrow (a projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow)
• כוכבית (Noun) asterisk
• כרוכית (Noun) strudel
• לוכסן (Adverb) diagonally; in a slanted, sloped, or angled direction
• מקף (Noun) hyphen (the symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line)
• מקף (Noun) maqaf (the Hebrew script hyphen (־))
• מקף (Adjective) defective spelling of מוקף
• ניקוד (Noun) nikud (the system of optional diacritics attached to Hebrew letters that indicate vowels and consonant variations)
• נקודה (Noun) full stop, period
• נקודה ופסיק (Noun) semicolon (the punctuation mark ;)
• נקודתיים (Noun) colon (the punctuation mark ⟨:⟩)
• סגול (Noun) segol (a Hebrew niqqud diacritical mark (ִ◌ֶ) in the form of three dots arranged as an upside-down triangle, pronounced in Modern Hebrew as /e/)
• סוגר (Noun) bracket, parenthesis
• סולמית (Noun) number sign (the character # used to represent the word number)
• סימן קריאה (Noun) exclamation mark
• סימן שאלה (Noun) question mark
• פגיון (Noun) dagger (a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade)
• פסיק (Noun) comma (the punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list)
• פתח (Verb) defective spelling of פיתח.
• פתח (Noun) patach
• צירי (Noun) The Hebrew diacritical mark tzere (ִ◌ֵ).
• צ׳ופצ׳יק (Noun) geresh, apostrophe
• קובוץ (Noun) kubutz (a Hebrew nikud diacritical mark (ִ◌ֻ) in the form of three diagonal dots underneath a letter)
• קמץ (Noun) kamatz (a Hebrew nikud vowel sign, shaped like a small uppercase T, which is written beneath a letter to indicate an /a/ sound (or, in Ashkenazi pronunciation, an /o/ sound)) (ִ◌ָ)
• רפה (Noun) The Hebrew diacritical mark rafe (ִ◌ֿ).
• רפה (Verb) defective spelling of ריפה
• שווא (Noun) shva (a Hebrew nikud vowel sign written as two vertical dots beneath a letter, in Israeli Hebrew indicating either the phoneme /e/ or the complete absence of a vowel) (ִ◌ְ)
• שטרודל (Noun) strudel
• תלתן (Noun) clubs (one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣)

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