 the phonologically trisyllabic word "הֶעֱמִיד" ("he placed upright"), pronounced , should standardly be syllabified into only two syllables, "הֶ—עֱמִיד" ("he'emid").As of 2016, a separate Unicode symbol for the sheva na has been proposed but not implemented.↑Long and short niqqud-variants represent identical spoken vowels in Modern Hebrew; the orthographic distinction is, however, still observed in standard spelling.