U+05E2 Hebrew Letter Ayin
U+05E2 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+05E2 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:
Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Arabic ʿayn ع, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, and Syriac ʿē ܥ (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 letters O, O and O.
The Arabic character is the origin of the Latin-script 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 hex reference | ע |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ×¢ |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 62 |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 92 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | F2 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 FB 30 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | F2 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 62 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57682 |
| Adobe Glyph List | ayin |
| Adobe Glyph List | ayinhebrew |
| digraph | E+ |
Related Characters
Confusables
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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 | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| Yes | |
| Hebrew Letter Ayin | |
| 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 |