I think it is both.
The upper dot has been used in Hebrew for a number of purposes. The
exact shape does not matter.
Jony
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> I'm wondering what U+05C4 HEBREW MARK UPPER DOT is supposed
> to be used
> for. Specifically, I'm trying to make sense of two characters
> that I know
> are used and that are similar in appearance, and determine which (if
> either) is 05C4. There's a hundreds mark - a dot placed over
> consonants to
> indicated that the numerical value of the consonant has a
> multiplier of
> 100. Then there's the punctum, which is found, for example,
> in Genesis
> 33:4:9. The punctum has a diamond shape in the BHS, which makes me
> inclined to think that 05C4 is the hundreds mark and not the punctum.
>
> I'm guessing that 05C4 came into Unicode from an Israeli
> standard. Does
> anybody know if that's the case and, if so, how the corresponding
> character in that standard was used?
>
>
>
> - Peter
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