U+05F1 "ױ" Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Vav Yod Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+05F1 "ױ" Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Vav Yod is a typographic ligature used primarily in the Yiddish language, where it represents the combination of the Hebrew letters vav (ו) and yod (י) to form a single glyph. This character is employed to denote the diphthong sound [oj] or [ɛj] in Yiddish orthography, similar to the English "oy" sound, and it helps streamline writing by combining two separate letters into one visual unit. While it is part of the Hebrew script block in Unicode, its usage is specifically tied to Yiddish, not modern Hebrew, and it preserves a traditional typographic convention found in printed Yiddish texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+05F1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Vav Yod |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hebrew Letter Vav Yod |
| Block | Hebrew |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ױ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ױ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD7 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x05F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000005F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u05f1 |