U+05DE "מ" Hebrew Letter Mem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
מ
U+05DE "מ" Hebrew Letter Mem is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the sound "m" and deriving from the Phoenician letter mem, which originally represented water. In modern Hebrew, it appears in two forms: the standard "מ" used at the beginning or middle of a word, and a final form "ם" used at the end of a word, known as Mem Sofit. This letter also holds significant numerical value in gematria, representing the number 40, and is commonly found in religious texts and everyday writing within the Hebrew language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05DE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Mem |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | מ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | מ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05de |