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Geresh (׳ in or 〔''Even-Shoshan Dictionary'', 2003; Shoshana Bahat and Mordechay Mishor, ''Dictionary of Contemporary Hebrew, 2007.〕 (:ˈɡeʁeʃ), or medieval (:ˈɡeːɾeːʃ)) is a sign in Hebrew writing. It has two meanings. #An apostrophe-like sign (also known colloquially as a ''chupchik'') placed after a letter: # * as a diacritic that modifies the pronunciation of some letters (in modern Hebrew), # * as a diacritic that signifies Yiddish origin of a word or suffix, (examples below) # * as a punctuation mark to denote initialisms or abbreviations, # * or to denote a Hebrew numeral. # A note of cantillation in the reading of the Torah and other Biblical books, taking the form of a curved diagonal stroke placed above a letter. ==Diacritic== As a diacritic, the Geresh is written immediately after (left of) the letter it modifies. It indicates three sounds native to speakers of modern Hebrew that are common in loan words and slang: as in ''judge'', as in ''measure'' and as in ''church''. In transliteration of Arabic, it indicates Arabic phonemes which are usually allophones in modern Hebrew: is distinguished from and is distinguished from . Finally, it indicates other sounds foreign to the phonology modern Hebrew speakers and used exclusively for the transliteration of foreign words: as in ''then'', as in ''thin'', ; and, in some transliteration systems, also , and . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geresh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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