U+05BE HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF

The Unicode character U+05BE, officially named HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Hebrew block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Dash Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Hebr script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Right-To-Left character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.