U+05DF "ן" Hebrew Letter Final Nun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ן
U+05DF "ן" Hebrew Letter Final Nun is the contextual or final form of the Hebrew letter Nun, used exclusively at the end of a word in Hebrew script. In the Hebrew alphabet, Nun (נ) represents the sound /n/, and its final form, which extends below the baseline, is a mandatory scribal variant that occurs only in word-final position. This character is categorized under Unicode Block U+0590 to U+05FF (Hebrew) and has been part of the Unicode Standard since version 1.1. Its presence is essential for proper Hebrew text rendering, as substituting the regular Nun for the final form would be grammatically incorrect.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05DF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Final Nun |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ן |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ן |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05df |