Gershayim

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Gershayim (״) is a punctuation mark used in the Hebrew language to denote acronyms. It is written before the last letter in the acronym (for example, צה״ל stands for צבא ההגנה לישראל).

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

[edit] Computer encoding

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

[edit] See also

Hebrew alphabet

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