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U+05D9 · HEBREW LETTER YOD

Hebrew Letter Yod

CodepointU+05D9
NameHEBREW LETTER YOD
Decimal1497
BlockHebrew (U+0590–U+05FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptHebrew
CategoryLo — Other Letter
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classR — Right-to-Left
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`D7 99`	2 bytes
UTF-16	`05D9`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000005D9`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`י`
HTML hex	`י`
CSS	`\5D9`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u05D9`
JSON	`\u05D9`
Python	`\u05D9`
Python	`\N{HEBREW LETTER YOD}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u05D9`
C / C++	`\u05D9`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{5D9}`
Go	`\u05D9`
Ruby	`\u05D9`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(1497)`
URL-encoded	`%D7%99`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0027'Apostrophe U+0060`Grave Accent U+00B4´Acute Accent U+02B9ʹModifier Letter Prime U+02BBʻModifier Letter Turned Comma U+02BCʼModifier Letter Apostrophe U+02BDʽModifier Letter Reversed Comma U+02BEʾModifier Letter Right Half Ring U+02C8ˈModifier Letter Vertical Line U+02CAˊModifier Letter Acute Accent U+02CBˋModifier Letter Grave Accent U+02F4˴Modifier Letter Middle Grave Accent U+0374ʹGreek Numeral Sign U+0384΄Greek Tonos U+055A՚Armenian Apostrophe U+055D՝Armenian Comma

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Characters built on י

U+FB1DיִHebrew Letter Yod with Hiriq U+FB39יּHebrew Letter Yod with Dagesh

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Nearby in Hebrew

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