U+05E7 "ק" Hebrew Letter Qof Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ק
U+05E7 "ק" Hebrew Letter Qof is the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a voiceless uvular or velar plosive sound, similar to the English "k" but produced further back in the throat. In modern Hebrew, it is pronounced as a simple /k/ sound, indistinguishable from the letter Kaf. Its numerical value in gematria is 100, and the letter's shape is thought by some scholars to have evolved from a pictograph of a monkey or the eye of a needle. The Qof appears in key Hebrew words such as "קדוש" (kadosh, meaning holy) and "קבלה" (Kabbalah, meaning reception or tradition).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05E7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Qof |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ק |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ק |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05E7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05e7 |