U+05E1 Hebrew Letter Samekh
U+05E1 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
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+05E1 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:
Samekh is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס, Aramaic samek 𐡎, and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ.
Samekh represents a voiceless alveolar fricative /s/. In the Hebrew language, the samekh has the same pronunciation as the left-dotted shin.
The numerical value of samekh is 60.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1505 |
UTF-8 | D7 A1 |
UTF-16 | 05 E1 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 E1 |
URL-Quoted | %D7%A1 |
HTML hex reference | ס |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ס |
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | F1 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | F1 |
Adobe Glyph List | afii57681 |
Adobe Glyph List | samekh |
Adobe Glyph List | samekhhebrew |
digraph | S+ |
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Confusables
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Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH | |
— | |
Hebrew | |
Other Letter | |
Hebrew | |
Right To Left | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other Letter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Hebrew Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Hebrew Letter | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |