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- 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.
[edit] Pronounciation
The following table contains the pronunciation of the kubutz and shuruk in reconstructed historical forms and dialects using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
[edit] 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
[edit] Unicode encoding
| Glyph |
Unicode |
Name |
| ֻ |
U+05BB |
QUBUTS |
| ּ |
U+05BC |
DAGESH, MAPIQ, OR SHURUQ |
[edit] See also
