- Not to be confused with a Kibbutz.
Kubutz (Hebrew: קֻבּוּץ) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by three diagonal dots "ֻ" underneath a letter. Shuruk (Hebrew: שׁוּרוּק) is another Hebrew niqqud vowel sign and it is represented by a dot in the middle and on the left side of a Vav "וּ". In Modern Hebrew, both signs indicate the phoneme /u/ which is the same as the "oo" sound in moon and is transliterated as a "u".
A Shuruk is not to be confused with the similarly looking and identically inputed but different dagesh and mappiq. In Israeli writing a kubutz is often promoted to a Vav with a shuruk which for the sake of disambiguation (see ktiv male) and in writing without niqqud, the shuruk is omitted leaving only the Vav "ו". The usage of a consonant (in this case Vav) to indicate a vowel comes from mater lectionis.
Pronounciation
The following table contains the pronunciation of the kubutz and shuruk in reconstructed historical forms and dialects using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Vowel Length comparison
These vowels lengths are not manifested in Modern Hebrew. In addition, the short u is usually promoted to a long u
in Israeli writing for the sake of disambiguation
Unicode encoding
| Glyph |
Unicode |
Name |
| ֻ |
U+05BB |
QUBUTS |
| ּ |
U+05BC |
DAGESH, MAPIQ, OR SHURUQ |
See also
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