Unicode Character "א" (U+05D0)

The character א (Hebrew Letter Alef) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+05D0. It is encoded in the Hebrew block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as א.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Hebrew Letter Alef
Unicode Codepoint U+05D0
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Hebrew
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Right To Left (R)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Hebrew
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+05D0 Conversion

HTML (decimal) א
HTML (hex) א
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %D7%90
CSS \0005D0
JavaScript, JSON \u05D0
C, C++, Java \u05D0
Python \u05D0
Rust \u{05D0}
Ruby \u05D0

How to type "א"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 5 D 0. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 5 D 0. Release Alt.

Preview

  • א
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • א
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • א
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xD7 0x90
UTF-16 (hex) 0x05D0
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000005D0

Characters based on "א" (U+05D0)

References