U+05EF "ׯ" Hebrew Yod Triangle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ׯ
U+05EF "ׯ" Hebrew Yod Triangle is a typographic and calligraphic glyph historically used in Hebrew manuscripts as a decorative or space-filling variation of the letter Yod, often appearing in a triangular arrangement to indicate the divine name or as a scribal abbreviation. It is not a standard letter of the Hebrew alphabet but rather a specialized symbol found in certain medieval texts and in some contemporary digital fonts, where it represents a stylistic ligature or a notational mark. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Hebrew block to support historical and liturgical documentation, preserving a unique artifact of Hebrew scribal tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05EF |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Hebrew Yod Triangle |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ׯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ׯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05ef |