# POST /v1/strip-nikud

Part of the HebrewCore documentation. Web: https://hc.itsbaba.com/docs#strip-nikud · Whole docs: https://hc.itsbaba.com/docs.md · Index: https://hc.itsbaba.com/llms.txt

`POST /v1/strip-nikud`

Remove nikud, dagesh, and cantillation marks (keeping punctuation like the maqaf). Useful for normalization, search keys, and de-duplication. Deterministic, no model.

```http
POST /v1/strip-nikud   { "text": "שָׁלוֹם" }
{ "text": "שָׁלוֹם", "stripped": "שלום" }
```