The Hebrew script is caseless and is written right-to-left; it is used for the Hebrew, Ladino and Yiddish languages. It is also sometimes used for printing modern and classical Aramaic. Additional Hebrew characters can be found in Alphabetic Presentation Forms. For more information, visit Nir Dagan’s Hebrew on the Web site. For information on using Unicode for Yiddish, visit Mark H. David’s Understanding Yiddish Information Processing (UYIP) with Unicode site. You can find some Hebrew in Windows-1255 character encoding at http://www.microsoft.com/israel/, some Hebrew in visual ISO 8859-8 encoding at the Israeli Government Tech Site, The Knesset - The Parliament of Israel and Israel Online, and some information in Hebrew about Macintosh computers at http://www.yeda.co.il/. You can find the same page with logical and visual character encoding at Noa (by Elad Eyal) [Logical Hebrew] and Noa (by Elad Eyal) [Visual Hebrew]. Shlomi Tal has produced The Guide to Hebrew Computing in both ISO-Visual Hebrew for Netscape and Unicode UTF-8 Logical Hebrew for Internet Explorer.
Users of Internet Explorer 5 for Windows can choose to install Hebrew Language Support, which allows you to view Hebrew Web pages and adds Hebrew support to some other applications. Internet Explorer 5 can save Hebrew Web pages with alternative character encodings, including Windows, ISO logical and ISO visual. The latest versions of Microsoft’s core fonts for Windows (Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman) include Hebrew characters.
Users of Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9 can install an Apple Language Kit that provides Hebrew support in various applications.
Mac OS X incorporates support for Hebrew Unicode from version 10.2 onwards, and the Mellel and Nisus Writer Express word processors support right-to-left Hebrew.
Hebrew Web pages with UTF-8, Windows-1255 and ISO 8859-8 (logical and visual) encodings are supported by Internet Explorer 5 (or higher) with Windows 95 (or higher). Netscape Navigator 7.1 (and Mozilla 1.4) for Macintosh and for Windows supports Hebrew Web pages with UTF-8, ISO 8859-8 visual and logical, Windows, IBM and Mac encodings. The iCab Web browser for Macintosh computers supports Hebrew Web pages with UTF-8, Mac Hebrew and ISO 8859-8 encodings. The Opera Web browser version 7.2 (or higher) supports Hebrew Web pages with UTF-8, ISO 8859-8 visual and logical and Windows encodings.
There is a converter for Yiddish or Hebrew from Windows or Mac Hebrew into Unicode UTF-8 at Refoyl Finkl’s Yiddish Typewriter. It also converts the other way, and supports some other formats.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aharoni, ALPHABETUM Unicode, Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Bitstream CyberBase, Bitstream CyberBit, Cardo, Caslon, Chrysanthi Unicode, CN-Arial, CN-Times, Code2000, Courier New, David, David Transparent, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, EversonMono, Ezra SIL, Ezra SIL SR, Fixed Miriam Transparent, Fixedsys Excelsior, FrankRuehl, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Free Sans, Free Serif, Gisha, Hindsight Unicode, Levenim MT, Linux Biolinum O, Linux Libertine O, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Typewriter, Lucida Sans Unicode (bug with Internet Explorer 5), Marin, MD King KhammuRabi, Microsoft Sans Serif, Mike Hebrew, Mike Hebrew Web, Miriam, Miriam Fixed, Miriam Transparent, Monospace, MPH 2B Damase, MyMyanmar, Narkisim, Quivira, Reader Sans, Rod, Rod Transparent, Roman Unicode, SBL Hebrew, sixpack, Sun-ExtA, Tahoma, Times New Roman, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Vusillus Old Face and Zawgyi-One; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts HB Arial (Arial Hebrew), HB Corsiva (Corsiva Hebrew), HB New Peninim (New Peninim MT), HB Raanana (Raanan) and Tahoma; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts Arial, Corsiva Hebrew, Lucida Grande, New Peninim MT, Raanana and Times New Roman; and in the Unix Unicode fonts Caslon and ClearlyU.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0590.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
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ס֑ | 1425 | ס֑ | 0591 | HEBREW ACCENT ETNAHTA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֒ | 1426 | ס֒ | 0592 | HEBREW ACCENT SEGOL (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֓ | 1427 | ס֓ | 0593 | HEBREW ACCENT SHALSHELET (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֔ | 1428 | ס֔ | 0594 | HEBREW ACCENT ZAQEF QATAN (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֕ | 1429 | ס֕ | 0595 | HEBREW ACCENT ZAQEF GADOL (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֖ | 1430 | ס֖ | 0596 | HEBREW ACCENT TIPEHA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֗ | 1431 | ס֗ | 0597 | HEBREW ACCENT REVIA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֘ | 1432 | ס֘ | 0598 | HEBREW ACCENT ZARQA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֙ | 1433 | ס֙ | 0599 | HEBREW ACCENT PASHTA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֚ | 1434 | ס֚ | 059A | HEBREW ACCENT YETIV (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֛ | 1435 | ס֛ | 059B | HEBREW ACCENT TEVIR (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֜ | 1436 | ס֜ | 059C | HEBREW ACCENT GERESH (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֝ | 1437 | ס֝ | 059D | HEBREW ACCENT GERESH MUQDAM (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֞ | 1438 | ס֞ | 059E | HEBREW ACCENT GERSHAYIM (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֟ | 1439 | ס֟ | 059F | HEBREW ACCENT QARNEY PARA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֠ | 1440 | ס֠ | 05A0 | HEBREW ACCENT TELISHA GEDOLA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֡ | 1441 | ס֡ | 05A1 | HEBREW ACCENT PAZER (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֢ | 1442 | ס֢ | 05A2 | HEBREW ACCENT ATNAH HAFUKH (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֣ | 1443 | ס֣ | 05A3 | HEBREW ACCENT MUNAH (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֤ | 1444 | ס֤ | 05A4 | HEBREW ACCENT MAHAPAKH (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֥ | 1445 | ס֥ | 05A5 | HEBREW ACCENT MERKHA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֦ | 1446 | ס֦ | 05A6 | HEBREW ACCENT MERKHA KEFULA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֧ | 1447 | ס֧ | 05A7 | HEBREW ACCENT DARGA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֨ | 1448 | ס֨ | 05A8 | HEBREW ACCENT QADMA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֩ | 1449 | ס֩ | 05A9 | HEBREW ACCENT TELISHA QETANA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֪ | 1450 | ס֪ | 05AA | HEBREW ACCENT YERAH BEN YOMO (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֫ | 1451 | ס֫ | 05AB | HEBREW ACCENT OLE (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֬ | 1452 | ס֬ | 05AC | HEBREW ACCENT ILUY (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֭ | 1453 | ס֭ | 05AD | HEBREW ACCENT DEHI (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֮ | 1454 | ס֮ | 05AE | HEBREW ACCENT ZINOR (combined with samekh (ס)) |
ס֯ | 1455 | ס֯ | 05AF | HEBREW MARK MASORA CIRCLE (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סְ | 1456 | סְ | 05B0 | HEBREW POINT SHEVA (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סֱ | 1457 | סֱ | 05B1 | HEBREW POINT HATAF SEGOL (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סֲ | 1458 | סֲ | 05B2 | HEBREW POINT HATAF PATAH (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סֳ | 1459 | סֳ | 05B3 | HEBREW POINT HATAF QAMATS (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סִ | 1460 | סִ | 05B4 | HEBREW POINT HIRIQ (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סֵ | 1461 | סֵ | 05B5 | HEBREW POINT TSERE (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סֶ | 1462 | סֶ | 05B6 | HEBREW POINT SEGOL (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סַ | 1463 | סַ | 05B7 | HEBREW POINT PATAH (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סָ | 1464 | סָ | 05B8 | HEBREW POINT QAMATS (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סֹ | 1465 | סֹ | 05B9 | HEBREW POINT HOLAM (combined with samekh (ס)) |
וֺ | 1466 | וֺ | 05BA | HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV (combined with vav (ו)) |
סֻ | 1467 | סֻ | 05BB | HEBREW POINT QUBUTS (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סּ | 1468 | סּ | 05BC | HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סֽ | 1469 | סֽ | 05BD | HEBREW POINT METEG (combined with samekh (ס)) |
־ | 1470 | ־ | 05BE | HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF |
סֿ | 1471 | סֿ | 05BF | HEBREW POINT RAFE (combined with samekh (ס)) |
׀ | 1472 | ׀ | 05C0 | HEBREW PUNCTUATION PASEQ |
סׁ | 1473 | סׁ | 05C1 | HEBREW POINT SHIN DOT (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סׂ | 1474 | סׂ | 05C2 | HEBREW POINT SIN DOT (combined with samekh (ס)) |
׃ | 1475 | ׃ | 05C3 | HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ |
סׄ | 1476 | סׄ | 05C4 | HEBREW MARK UPPER DOT (combined with samekh (ס)) |
סׅ | 1477 | סׅ | 05C5 | HEBREW MARK LOWER DOT (combined with samekh (ס)) |
׆ | 1478 | ׆ | 05C6 | HEBREW PUNCTUATION NUN HAFUKHA |
סׇ | 1479 | סׇ | 05C7 | HEBREW POINT QAMATS QATAN (combined with samekh (ס)) |
א | 1488 | א | 05D0 | HEBREW LETTER ALEF |
ב | 1489 | ב | 05D1 | HEBREW LETTER BET |
ג | 1490 | ג | 05D2 | HEBREW LETTER GIMEL |
ד | 1491 | ד | 05D3 | HEBREW LETTER DALET |
ה | 1492 | ה | 05D4 | HEBREW LETTER HE |
ו | 1493 | ו | 05D5 | HEBREW LETTER VAV |
ז | 1494 | ז | 05D6 | HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN |
ח | 1495 | ח | 05D7 | HEBREW LETTER HET |
ט | 1496 | ט | 05D8 | HEBREW LETTER TET |
י | 1497 | י | 05D9 | HEBREW LETTER YOD |
ך | 1498 | ך | 05DA | HEBREW LETTER FINAL KAF |
כ | 1499 | כ | 05DB | HEBREW LETTER KAF |
ל | 1500 | ל | 05DC | HEBREW LETTER LAMED |
ם | 1501 | ם | 05DD | HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM |
מ | 1502 | מ | 05DE | HEBREW LETTER MEM |
ן | 1503 | ן | 05DF | HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN |
נ | 1504 | נ | 05E0 | HEBREW LETTER NUN |
ס | 1505 | ס | 05E1 | HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH |
ע | 1506 | ע | 05E2 | HEBREW LETTER AYIN |
ף | 1507 | ף | 05E3 | HEBREW LETTER FINAL PE |
פ | 1508 | פ | 05E4 | HEBREW LETTER PE |
ץ | 1509 | ץ | 05E5 | HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI |
צ | 1510 | צ | 05E6 | HEBREW LETTER TSADI |
ק | 1511 | ק | 05E7 | HEBREW LETTER QOF |
ר | 1512 | ר | 05E8 | HEBREW LETTER RESH |
ש | 1513 | ש | 05E9 | HEBREW LETTER SHIN |
ת | 1514 | ת | 05EA | HEBREW LETTER TAV |
װ | 1520 | װ | 05F0 | HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE VAV |
ױ | 1521 | ױ | 05F1 | HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH VAV YOD |
ײ | 1522 | ײ | 05F2 | HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE YOD |
׳ | 1523 | ׳ | 05F3 | HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH |
״ | 1524 | ״ | 05F4 | HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM |
Copyright © 1999–2009 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2006 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in July 2006.
Created 3rd February 1999 Last updated 16th December 2009