Unicode Character "ו" (U+05D5)

The character ו (Hebrew Letter Vav) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+05D5. 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 ו.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Hebrew Letter Vav
Unicode Codepoint U+05D5
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+05D5 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ו
HTML (hex) ו
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %D7%95
CSS \0005D5
JavaScript, JSON \u05D5
C, C++, Java \u05D5
Python \u05D5
Rust \u{05D5}
Ruby \u05D5

How to type "ו"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xD7 0x95
UTF-16 (hex) 0x05D5
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000005D5

Characters based on "ו" (U+05D5)

References