U+05E2 "ע" Hebrew Letter Ayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ע
U+05E2 "ע" Hebrew Letter Ayin is the sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, historically representing a voiced pharyngeal fricative sound in ancient Semitic languages, though in modern Hebrew it is typically silent or realized as a glottal stop by many speakers. Its name, Ayin, means "eye" in Hebrew, reflecting the letter's original pictographic origin as a symbol for an eye. In the Hebrew numeric system, it carries the value of 70, and it appears in many foundational Hebrew words, including "עם" (am, meaning "people") and "עולם" (olam, meaning "world" or "eternity").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05E2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Ayin |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ע |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ע |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05e2 |