U+05E6 "צ" Hebrew Letter Tsadi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
צ
U+05E6 "צ" Hebrew Letter Tsadi is the eighteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a voiceless alveolar affricate sound similar to the "ts" in "cats." In its final form, when it appears at the end of a word, it is written as "ץ," which is a distinct Unicode character (U+05E5). The letter Tsadi has a numerical value of 90 in gematria, the Hebrew system of assigning numeric values to letters, and it appears in ancient Hebrew inscriptions as well as in modern and biblical texts. It is also commonly transliterated as "tz," as seen in words like "tzitzit" and "mitzvah."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05E6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Tsadi |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | צ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | צ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05e6 |