U+05E9 HEBREW LETTER SHIN: ש – Unicode

U+05E9 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0590 to U+05FF Hebrew in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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. 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
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	×©
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

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Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	HEBREW LETTER SHIN
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Hebrew
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Hebrew
Bidirectional Category	Right To Left
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Hebrew Letter Shin
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Shin
Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Shin
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Shin
Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Shin
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Shin
Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Shin
Case Folding	Hebrew Letter Shin
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Hebrew Letter Shin
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Hebrew Letter Shin
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Hebrew Letter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Hebrew Letter Shin
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Hebrew Letter
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Hebrew Letter Shin
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R