The Unicode and HTML for the
Hebrew alphabet are found in the following tables. The
Unicode Hebrew block extends from U+0590 to U+05FF and from U+FB1D to U+FB4F. It includes
letters,
ligatures,
combining diacritical marks (''
niqqud'' and
cantillation marks) and
punctuation. The
Numeric Character References are included for HTML. These can be used in many markup languages, and they are often used on web pages to create the Hebrew
glyphs presentable by the majority of web browsers.
Unicode
Character table
Compact table
Note I: The ligatures are intended for
Yiddish
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...
. They are not used in Hebrew.
Note II: The symbol is called a
gershayim
Gershayim (Hebrew: , without niqqud ), also occasionally grashayim. (), is two distinct typographical marks in the Hebrew language. The name literally means "double geresh".
Punctuation mark
Gershayim most commonly refers to the punctuation mark ...
and is a punctuation mark used in the Hebrew language to denote
acronyms. It is written before the last letter in the acronym. Gershayim is also the name of a note of cantillation in the reading of the
Torah, printed above the accented letter.
Remaining graphs are in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block:
Note: In
Yiddish orthography only, the glyph, ' (), pronounced , can be optionally used, rather than typing ' then ' (). In
Hebrew spelling Hebrew spelling refers to the way words are spelled in the Hebrew language. The Hebrew alphabet contains 22 letters, all of which are primarily consonants. This is because the Hebrew script is an abjad, that is, its letters indicate consonants, not ...
this would be pronounced . is written ' under the previous letter then ' ().
HTML code tables
Note:
HTML numeric character references can be in decimal format (&#''DDDD'';) or hexadecimal format (&#x''HHHH'';). For example, ג and ג (where "05D2" in
hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of 16. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using 10 symbols, hexa ...
is the same as "1490" in
decimal
The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is the extension to non-integer numbers of the Hindu–Arabic numeral ...
) both represent the Hebrew letter gimmel.
See also
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Alphabetic Presentation Forms (Unicode block)
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Hebrew (Unicode block)
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Hebrew alphabet
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Niqqud
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Yiddish orthography
External links
Unicode Hebrew: Range 0590-05FFAlphabetic Presentation Forms: Range FB00-FB4FHebrew Unicode Chart
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Character encoding
Hebrew alphabet