U+05D6 "ז" Hebrew Letter Zayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+05D6 "ז" Hebrew Letter Zayin is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, used primarily in the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages such as Yiddish and Ladino. It has a numeric value of seven in gematria, the traditional Jewish system of assigning numerical value to letters, and its shape is traditionally described as resembling a weapon or a scepter with a crown on top. In modern Hebrew, the letter Zayin represents a voiced alveolar fricative sound, similar to the English letter Z, and it appears in various contexts from sacred texts to everyday writing.
General Properties
Code Point
U+05D6
Name
Hebrew Letter Zayin
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ז
HTML Hex Encoding
ז
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD7 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x05D6
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000005D6
C/C++/Java Escape
\u05d6
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hebrew