U+05E4 "פ" Hebrew Letter Pe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

פ

U+05E4 "פ" Hebrew Letter Pe is the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing the sound /p/ when it appears with a dagesh (a dot in its center) or /f/ when it appears without a dagesh, known as a rafe. In its standard form, it is used in most positions within a word, while a separate Unicode character, U+05E3, represents its final form used at the end of a word. This letter also has a numeric value of 80 in gematria, the Jewish system of assigning numerical values to letters, and it is related to the Latin letter P and Greek Pi through historical script evolution. In modern Hebrew, it appears frequently in both native and loanwords, and its shape resembles a rounded letter with a distinctive open top, distinguishing it from similar letters like Kaf and Bet.

General Properties

Code Point U+05E4
Version Added 1.1
Name Hebrew Letter Pe
Block Hebrew
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding פ
HTML Hex Encoding פ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD7 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x05E4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000005E4
C/C++/Java Escape \u05e4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hebrew Letter
Script Hebrew
Script Extensions Hebrew
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Hebrew Letter
Sentence Break OLetter