Gershayim

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Gershayim (״) is a punctuation mark used in the Hebrew language to denote acronyms. It is written between the second-last and last letters of the non-inflected form of the acronym[1] , e.g. "report", singular: "דּוּ״חַ" (which stands for "דין וחשבון"); plural: "דּוּ״חוֹת"; or "squad commander", masculine: מ״כ (which stands for "מפקד כיתה"); feminine: "מַ״כִּית".

Gershayim are sometimes also used in the same typographical manner to indicate that the sequence of letters represents a number rather than a word. This is used in the case where a number is represented by two or more Hebrew numerals (e.g., 18 → ‫י״ח‬).

Gershayim is also a note of cantillation in the reading of the Torah, printed above the accented letter.

Since most keyboards do not have a gershayim key, often people will substitute a quotation mark.

Appearance Code points Name
״ U+05F4 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM

  1. ^ Hebrew Punctuation Academy of the Hebrew Language.
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