Geresh

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Geresh ("׳", Hebrew: גֵרֵשׁ, [gɛ'ʁɛʃ]), (also informally Chupchik[citation needed] (['ʧupʧik]) is an apostrophe-like sign used in Hebrew as a diacritic which modifies the pronunciation of some letters, as a punctuation mark to denote initialisms, to denote a Hebrew numeral and as a note of cantillation in the reading of the Torah.

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As a diacritic, the Geresh is written after (e.i. ro the left of) the letter whose pronunciation it modifies:

without Geresh pronunciation (IPA) with Geresh pronunciation (IPA)
ג [g] ג׳ [ʤ]
ז [z] ז׳ [ʒ]
צ [ʦ] צ׳ [ʧ]
used when transcribing Arabic into Habrew letters
ח transcribes ﺡ ([ħ]) ח׳ transcribes ﺥ ([χ])
ע transcribes ع ([ʕ]) ע׳ transcribes غ ([ʁ])

To denote initialisms, the Geresh is written after the last letter of the initialism (e.g. "Ms.": "׳בג").[1].

A Geresh is sometime appended after (to the left of) a single letter to indicate that the letter represents a number. This is used in the case where a number is represented by a single Hebrew numeral (e.g., 100 → ‫ק׳‬), whereas a number represented by a sequence of two or more Hebrew letters is indicated by Gershayim ("״").

As a note of cantillation in the reading of the Torah, the Geresh is printed above the accented letter: ב֜. The Geresh Muqdam (lit. "a Geresh made earlier"), a variant cantillation mark, is also printed above the accented letter, but slightly before (i.e. more to the right of) the position of the normal Geresh: ב֝

Appearance Code points Name
׳ U+05F3 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH
֜ U+059C HEBREW ACCENT GERESH
֝ U+059D HEBREW ACCENT GERESH MUQDAM

Since most keyboards do not have a Geresh key, often an apostrophe ( ', Unicode U+0027) is used to denote a Geresh.

  1. ^ Hebrew Punctuation Academy of the Hebrew Language.
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