Hebrew (Unicode block)

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Hebrew
RangeU+0590..U+05FF
(112 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Hebrew
Major alphabets Hebrew
Yiddish
Assigned88 code points
Unused24 reserved code points
Source standards ISO 8859-8
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)52 (+52)
1.0.1 (1992)51 (−1)
2.0 (1996)82 (+31)
4.1 (2005)86 (+4)
5.0 (2006)87 (+1)
11.0 (2018)88 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: One character was moved from the Hebrew block to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646. [1] [2] [3]

Hebrew is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and other Jewish diaspora languages.

Contents

Block

Hebrew [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+059x֑ ֒ ֓ ֔ ֕ ֖ ֗ ֘ ֙ ֚ ֛ ֜ ֝ ֞ ֟ 
U+05Ax֠ ֡ ֢ ֣ ֤ ֥ ֦ ֧ ֨ ֩ ֪ ֫ ֬ ֭ ֮ ֯ 
U+05Bxְ ֱ ֲ ֳ ִ ֵ ֶ ַ ָ ֹ ֺ ֻ ּ ֽ ־ֿ 
U+05Cx׀ׁ ׂ ׃ׄ ׅ ׆ׇ 
U+05Dxאבגדהוזחטיךכלםמן
U+05Exנסעףפץצקרשתׯ
U+05Fxװױײ׳״
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hebrew block:

See also

References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.