U+05EA HEBREW LETTER TAV: ת – Unicode

U+05EA 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. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+05EA 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:

Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Tāw , Hebrew Tav ת‎, Aramaic Taw , Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). In Arabic, it is also gives rise to the derived letter ث Ṯāʼ. Its original sound value is /t/.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek tau (Τ), Latin T, and Cyrillic Т.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	1514
UTF-8	D7 AA
UTF-16	05 EA
UTF-32	00 00 05 EA
URL-Quoted	%D7%AA
HTML-Escape	ת
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	×ª
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes)	FA
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes)	FA
Adobe Glyph List	afii57690
Adobe Glyph List	tav
Adobe Glyph List	tavhebrew
digraph	T+

Related Characters

Confusables

Hebrew Letter Wide Tav

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	HEBREW LETTER TAV
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 Tav
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Tav
Lowercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Tav
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Tav
Uppercase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Tav
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Tav
Titlecase Mapping	Hebrew Letter Tav
Case Folding	Hebrew Letter Tav
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 Tav
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 Tav
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 Tav
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 Tav
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R