U+05E2 HEBREW LETTER AYIN
U+05E2 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 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+05E2 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:
Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʿayin , Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē , Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).
The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) or a similarly articulated consonant. In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether (thus, in the revived Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely in part due to European influence).
The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letter O, O and O.
It is the origin of letter Ƹ.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1506 |
| UTF-8 | D7 A2 |
| UTF-16 | 05 E2 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 05 E2 |
| URL-Quoted | %D7%A2 |
| HTML-Escape | ע |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ×¢ |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | F2 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | F2 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57682 |
| Adobe Glyph List | ayin |
| Adobe Glyph List | ayinhebrew |
| digraph | E+ |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HEBREW LETTER AYIN | |
| — | |
| Hebrew | |
| Other Letter | |
| Hebrew | |
| Right To Left | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Hebrew Letter | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| R |