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The dagesh is a dot which is drawn inside a Hebrew Letter to modify its sound. It can either be ''kal'' (light) or ''hazak'' (strong). DAGESH KAL ''Dagesh Kal'' (sometimes referred to as "dagesh lene") may be placed inside the letters '' Bet '' ב, '' Kaf '' כ & ך, '' Pe '' פ '' Gimel '' ג, '' Dalet '' ד, '' Tav '' ת. In Modern Israeli Hebrew , the effect of the dagesh on the above letters is to turn a Fricative sound into its equivalent Plosive :
The other three letters to which ''dagesh kal'' applies do not vary in Modern Hebrew, but have similar variations in some Hebrew traditions. DAGESH HAZAK ''Dagesh Hazak'' (sometimes referred to as "dagesh forte") may be placed in almost any letter to indicate a doubling of that letter in pronunciation. This phonological variation is not adhered to in Modern Hebrew and is only used by current speakers of Hebrew in situations for careful pronunciation, such as reading of scriptures in a synagogue service, and then only by very precise readers. The following letters, the '' א, '' He '' ה, '' Chet '' ח, '' Ayin '' ע, '' Resh '' ר. (A few instances of ''resh'' with dagesh are Masoretically recorded in the Hebrew Bible , as well as a few cases of ''aleph'' with a dagesh, such as in Leviticus 23:17.) The presence of a dagesh hazak or consonant-doubling in a word may be entirely morphological, or, as is often the case, is a lengthening to compensate for a deleted consonant. UNICODE ENCODINGS In computer typography there are two ways to use a dagesh with Hebrew text. Here are Unicode examples: bet + dagesh: בּ בּ = U+05D1 U+05BC kaf + dagesh: כּ כּ = U+05DB U+05BC pe + dagesh: פּ פּ = U+05E4 U+05BC bet with dagesh: בּ בּ = U+FB31 kaf with dagesh: כּ כּ = U+FB3B pe with dagesh: פּ פּ = U+FB44 Some fonts, Character Set s, Encoding s, and OS es may support neither, one, or both methods. SOURCES |