U+05D5 HEBREW LETTER VAV: ו – Unicode

U+05D5 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0590 to U+05FF Hebrew in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hebrew script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Right To Left and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+05D5 behaves as Hebrew Letter regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Hebrew Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Waw/Vav (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw , Aramaic waw , Hebrew waw/vav ו‎, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و (sixth in abjadi order; 27th in modern Arabic order).
It represents the consonant [w] in classical Hebrew, and [v] in modern Hebrew, as well as the vowels [u] and [o]. In text with niqqud, a dot is added to the left or on top of the letter to indicate, respectively, the two vowel pronunciations.
It is the origin of Greek Ϝ (digamma) and Υ (upsilon), Cyrillic У, Latin F and U and later Y, and the derived Latin- or Roman-alphabet letters V, and W.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	1493
UTF-8	D7 95
UTF-16	05 D5
UTF-32	00 00 05 D5
URL-Quoted	%D7%95
HTML-Escape	ו
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	×
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes)	E5
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes)	E5
Adobe Glyph List	afii57669
Adobe Glyph List	vav
Adobe Glyph List	vavhebrew
digraph	W+

Related Characters

Confusables

Latin Small Letter L

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	HEBREW LETTER VAV
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Hebrew
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Hebrew
Bidirectional Category	Right To Left
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Hebrew Letter Vav
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Vav
Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Vav
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Vav
Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Vav
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Vav
Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Vav
Case Folding	Hebrew Letter Vav
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Hebrew Letter Vav
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Hebrew Letter Vav
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Hebrew Letter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Hebrew Letter Vav
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Hebrew Letter
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Hebrew Letter Vav
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R