Apostrophe and Quotation Marks
- For more details on this topic, see Geresh and Gershayim.
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| צ׳ארלס | צ'ארלס |
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| צה״ל | צה"ל |
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The geresh ⟨׳⟩, is the Hebrew equivalent of a period in abbreviations (e.g. abbrev.), in addition to being attached to Hebrew letters to indicate the soft g and ch sounds in foreign names (ex. Charles, Jake). The gershayim ⟨״⟩, is a Hebrew symbol symbolizing that a sequence of characters is an acronym, and is placed before the last character of the word. Owing to a Hebrew keyboard's having neither a geresh nor gershayim, they are usually replaced online with, respectively, the visually similar apostrophe ⟨'⟩ and quotation mark ⟨"⟩. The quotation mark and apostrophe are higher than the geresh and gershayim: where the latter are placed level with the top of Hebrew letters, the apostrophe and quotation marks are above them.
Some Hebrew-specific fonts (fonts designed primarily for Hebrew letters), such as David, Narkisim and FrankRuehl, do not feature the apostrophe and quotation marks as such but use the geresh and gershayim to substitute for them.
| Glyph | Unicode | Name |
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| ׳ | U+05f3 | HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH |
| ״ | U+05f4 | HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM |
| ' | U+0027 | APOSTROPHE |
| " | U+0022 | QUOTATION MARK |
Read more about this topic: Hebrew Punctuation, Punctuation
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