U+05D5 Hebrew Letter Vav
U+05D5 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Hebrew in the 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 no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This letter joins with other adjacent letters and numbers to form a word. The word that U+05D5 forms with similar adjacent characters and the hyphen prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew 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 and V, Latin F and V and later Y, and the derived Latin- or Roman-alphabet letters U 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 hex reference | ו |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ו |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 46 |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | E5 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 F9 37 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | E5 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 46 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57669 |
| Adobe Glyph List | vav |
| Adobe Glyph List | vavhebrew |
| digraph | W+ |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HEBREW LETTER VAV | |
| — | |
| Hebrew | |
| Other Letter | |
| Hebrew | |
| Right To Left | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| Yes | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Hebrew Letter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Hebrew Letter Vav | |
| R |