U+05E9 HEBREW LETTER SHIN
U+05E9 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. In text U+05E9 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:
Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin 𐤔, Hebrew Shin ש, Aramaic Shin 𐡔, Syriac Shin ܫ, and Arabic Shin ش (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant, [ʃ] or [s].
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave Latin S and Cyrillic С), and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (, Ш).
The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter Śawt is also cognate.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1513 |
UTF-8 | D7 A9 |
UTF-16 | 05 E9 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 E9 |
URL-Quoted | %D7%A9 |
HTML-Escape | ש |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ש |
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | F9 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | F9 |
Adobe Glyph List | afii57689 |
Adobe Glyph List | shin |
Adobe Glyph List | shinhebrew |
digraph | Sh |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
HEBREW LETTER SHIN | |
— | |
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 | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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 |