U+05E2 "ע" Hebrew Letter Ayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+05E2 "ע" Hebrew Letter Ayin is the sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, historically representing a voiced pharyngeal fricative sound in ancient Semitic languages, though in modern Hebrew it is typically silent or realized as a glottal stop by many speakers. Its name, Ayin, means "eye" in Hebrew, reflecting the letter's original pictographic origin as a symbol for an eye. In the Hebrew numeric system, it carries the value of 70, and it appears in many foundational Hebrew words, including "עם" (am, meaning "people") and "עולם" (olam, meaning "world" or "eternity").
General Properties
Code Point
U+05E2
Name
Hebrew Letter Ayin
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ע
HTML Hex Encoding
ע
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD7 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x05E2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000005E2
C/C++/Java Escape
\u05e2
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hebrew