U+05E1 "ס" Hebrew Letter Samekh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ס
U+05E1 "ס" Hebrew Letter Samekh is the fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing the voiceless alveolar fricative sound "s" as in the English word "sun." Its modern square script form is a closed circle, historically derived from a pictograph of a fish or a support pillar. In the Hebrew numbering system known as gematria, the letter Samekh has the numerical value of 60. This character is also notable for its symbolic role in Jewish tradition, often associated with protection and divine support, and it appears in both sacred texts and modern Hebrew writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05E1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Samekh |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ס |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ס |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05E1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05e1 |