Unicode Character "י" (U+05D9)

The character י (HEBREW LETTER YOD) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+05D9. 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 י.

Main Unicode Properties

Name HEBREW LETTER YOD
Unicode Codepoint U+05D9
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+05D9 Conversion

HTML (decimal) י
HTML (hex) י
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %D7%99
CSS \05D9
JavaScript \u{05D9}
JSON \u05D9
C, C++ \U000005D9
Java \u05D9
Python \U000005D9
Rust \u{05D9}
Ruby \u{05D9}

How to type "י"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 5 D 9. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 5 D 9. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xD7 0x99
UTF-16 (hex) 0x05D9
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000005D9

Characters based on "י" (U+05D9)

References