The Unicode and HTML for the

Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet ( he, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewi ...

are found in the following tables. The

Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...

Hebrew block extends from U+0590 to U+05FF and from U+FB1D to U+FB4F. It includes

letters Letter, letters, or literature may refer to: Characters typeface * Letter (alphabet), a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet. * Letterform, the graphic form of a letter of the alphabe ...

ligature Ligature may refer to: * Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture used to shut off a blood vessel or other anatomical structure ** Ligature (orthodontic), used in dentistry * Ligature (music), an element of musical notation used especially in the me ...

combining diacritical mark In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents). Unicode al ...

s (''

niqqud In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud ( or ) is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Several such diacritical systems were developed in the ...

'' and

cantillation Cantillation is the ritual chanting of prayers and responses. It often specifically refers to Jewish Hebrew cantillation. Cantillation sometimes refers to diacritics used in texts that are to be chanted in liturgy. Cantillation includes: * Chant ...

marks) and

punctuation Punctuation (or sometimes interpunction) is the use of spacing, conventional signs (called punctuation marks), and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading of written text, whether read silently or aloud. An ...

. The

Numeric Character References A numeric character reference (NCR) is a common markup (computer programming), markup construct used in SGML and SGML-derived markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of character (computing), characters that, in turn ...

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 A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A g ...

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 ve ...

. They are not used in Hebrew.
Note II: The symbol is called a gershayim and is a punctuation mark used in the Hebrew language to denote

acronym An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase. Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of words, as in ''NATO'' (''North Atlantic Treaty Organization''), but sometimes use syllables, as ...

s. 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 The Torah (; hbo, ''Tōrā'', "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In that sense, Torah means the ...

, printed above the accented letter. Remaining graphs are in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block: Note: In

Yiddish orthography Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew script, which is used as the basis of a full vocalic alphabet. Letters that are silent or represent glottal stops in the ...

only, the glyph, ' (), pronounced , can be optionally used, rather than typing ' then ' (). In Hebrew spelling 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 is the same as "1490" in decimal) both represent the Hebrew letter gimmel.

External links

Unicode Hebrew: Range 0590-05FF

Alphabetic Presentation Forms: Range FB00-FB4F

Hebrew Unicode Chart
{{Unicode navigation Character encoding Hebrew alphabet

Unicode

Character table

Compact table

HTML code tables

See also

External links