U+05D4 "ה" Hebrew Letter He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ה
U+05D4 "ה" Hebrew Letter He is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, with a numerical value of five, and represents a glottal fricative sound similar to the English "h." It is a fundamental component of the Hebrew script, appearing frequently in both modern and biblical texts, and is often used as a definite article prefix meaning "the" when attached to a noun. In typographic design, the letter features an open top and a small foot on the lower left, distinguishing it from the similar-looking letter "Het."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05D4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter He |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ה |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ה |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05d4 |