U+05D5 "ו" Hebrew Letter Vav Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05D5 "ו" Hebrew Letter Vav is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing the consonant sound /v/ in modern Hebrew, though historically it also served as a vowel marker for the long "o" and "u" sounds, particularly when used as a mater lectionis. Its numerical value in gematria is six, and it is commonly employed as a conjunctive prefix meaning "and" when attached to the beginning of a word. In biblical texts, the Vav often appears with a vertical stroke and a distinctive top edge, and it links to the shape's ancient origins in the Phoenician alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05D5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Vav |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ו |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ו |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05D5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05d5 |