U+05D0 HEBREW LETTER ALEF

א

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Decimal / Nº
1488
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Right-To-Left
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+05D0, officially named HEBREW LETTER ALEF, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Hebrew block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Hebr script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Right-To-Left character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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1488 Copied!
UTF-8 D7 90 Copied!
UTF-16 05 D0 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 05 D0 Copied!
URL-Quoted %D7%90 Copied!
HTML hex reference א Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'05D0' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u05D0 Copied!
C and C++ \u05d0 Copied!
C# \u05d0 Copied!
CSS \0005D0 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(1488) Copied!
Go \u05d0 Copied!
JavaScript \u05D0 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{05d0} Copied!
JSON \u05D0 Copied!
Java \u05D0 Copied!
Lua \u{05D0} Copied!
Matlab char(1488) Copied!
Perl \x{05D0} Copied!
PHP \u{05d0} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\05D0' Copied!
PowerShell `u{05D0} Copied!
Python \u05d0 Copied!
Ruby \u{05d0} Copied!
Rust \u{05d0} Copied!