U+05E8 "ר" Hebrew Letter Resh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ר
U+05E8 "ר" Hebrew Letter Resh is the twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, functioning as a consonant that typically represents an alveolar trill or uvular fricative "r" sound depending on the speaker's dialect. In the Hebrew numeric system known as gematria, resh carries the numeric value of 200. Its shape is distinguished by a single curved stroke descending from a top horizontal line, giving it a simple yet distinct appearance. Within the Unicode standard, this character is classified in the block for Hebrew script and is used in both modern and ancient Hebrew texts, as well as in Yiddish and other Jewish languages that employ the Hebrew script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Resh |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ר |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ר |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05e8 |