Gershayim

Gershayim (Hebrew:, without niqqud ), also occasionally grashayim , can refer to either of two distinct typographical marks in the Hebrew language. The name literally means "double geresh".

Punctuation mark
Gershayim most commonly refers to the punctuation mark $\langle״\rangle$. It is always written before the last letter of the non-inflected form of a word or numeral. It is used in the following ways:


 * To indicate a Hebrew acronym. For example: (singular),  (plural), "report" represents ; and  (masculine),  (feminine), "squad commander" represents.
 * To indicate a multi-digit Hebrew numeral. For example: represents 18.
 * To indicate the names of Hebrew letters, differentiating them from any homographs. Compare "he sketched an eye" with  "he sketched an ayin".
 * To indicate Hebrew word roots. For example: the root of "crossword puzzles" is  (š—b—ṣ); the root of   "to tilt, to conjugate" is  (n—ṭ—h); and the root of   "being synchronized" is  (s–n–k–r–n).
 * In older texts, to indicate the transliteration of a foreign word. This use corresponds to English's use of italics. For example, in printed works of Rashi, the town of Rashi's birth, Troyes, is spelled.

Cantillation mark
Gershayim is a disjunctive cantillation accent in the Tanakh (Jewish bible) - ◌֞. It is placed above the stressed syllable, as in וַיִּקַּ֞ח (Genesis 22:3).

Computer encoding
Most keyboards do not have a key for the gershayim. As a result, a quotation mark is often substituted for it.