U+05E9 "ש" Hebrew Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05E9 "ש" Hebrew Letter Shin is the twenty first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing the sound "sh" as in "shalom." It is one of the few Hebrew letters with two distinct written forms when used in Torah scrolls and religious texts, as the Shin sometimes appears with a modified left arm called a "Sin" when it takes a dot on the opposite side to denote an "s" sound. In Jewish mysticism and tradition, the letter Shin is highly symbolic, often associated with the name of God and appearing on the side of the tefillin boxes. Its Unicode encoding ensures that this ancient letter can be accurately represented and processed across modern digital systems and operating systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05E9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Shin |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ש |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ש |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05e9 |