# dagesh or mapiq

> Hebrew point dagesh or mapiq (U+05BC) or shuruq; dagesh falls within consonnants for a “soft” plosive or “hard” geminated pronunciation ; mapiq or shuruk fall within a few letters to distinguish consonnant and vowel sounds

**Wikidata**: [Q912265](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q912265)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagesh)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/dagesh-or-mapiq


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Source](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#character-references)
3. [Source](https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamesList.txt)