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ע
U+05E2 · HEBREW LETTER AYIN

Hebrew Letter Ayin

  • CodepointU+05E2
  • NameHEBREW LETTER AYIN
  • Decimal1506
  • 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

About this character

U+05E2 (ע) is HEBREW LETTER AYIN, a letter in the Hebrew block. It belongs to the Hebrew script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a strong right-to-left character (bidirectional class R), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

How to type ע

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D7 A22 bytes
UTF-1605E21 code unit
UTF-32000005E24 bytes
HTML decimalע
HTML hexע
CSS\5E2in content: "…"
JavaScript\u05E2
JSON\u05E2
Python\u05E2
Python\N{HEBREW LETTER AYIN}by name
Java / C#\u05E2
C / C++\u05E2universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{5E2}
Go\u05E2
Ruby\u05E2
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1506)
URL-encoded%D7%A2percent-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+FB20ﬠHebrew Letter Alternative Ayin
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Characters built on ע

U+FB20ﬠHebrew Letter Alternative Ayin
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Nearby in Hebrew

All in block →
U+05DCלHebrew Letter Lamed U+05DDםHebrew Letter Final Mem U+05DEמHebrew Letter Mem U+05DFןHebrew Letter Final Nun U+05E0נHebrew Letter Nun U+05E1סHebrew Letter Samekh U+05E3ףHebrew Letter Final Pe U+05E4פHebrew Letter Pe U+05E5ץHebrew Letter Final Tsadi U+05E6צHebrew Letter Tsadi U+05E7קHebrew Letter Qof U+05E8רHebrew Letter Resh