U+05D6 "ז" Hebrew Letter Zayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ז
U+05D6 "ז" Hebrew Letter Zayin is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, used primarily in the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages such as Yiddish and Ladino. It has a numeric value of seven in gematria, the traditional Jewish system of assigning numerical value to letters, and its shape is traditionally described as resembling a weapon or a scepter with a crown on top. In modern Hebrew, the letter Zayin represents a voiced alveolar fricative sound, similar to the English letter Z, and it appears in various contexts from sacred texts to everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05D6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Zayin |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ז |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ז |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05D6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05d6 |