What is the difference between Alef Symbol and Hebrew Letter Alef?

Alef Symbol is U+2135 in the Letterlike Symbols block. Hebrew Letter Alef is U+05D0 in the Hebrew block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Alef Symbol?

The HTML entity for Alef Symbol (U+2135) is ℵ.

What is the HTML entity for Hebrew Letter Alef?

The HTML entity for Hebrew Letter Alef (U+05D0) is א.

Are Alef Symbol and Hebrew Letter Alef the same Unicode character?

No. Alef Symbol is U+2135 (decimal 8501) and Hebrew Letter Alef is U+05D0 (decimal 1488). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Alef Symbol and Hebrew Letter Alef?

Alef Symbol (U+2135) encodes as E2 84 B5 in UTF-8. Hebrew Letter Alef (U+05D0) encodes as D7 90 in UTF-8.

Alef Symbol vs Hebrew Letter Alef

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

ℵ

Alef Symbol

U+2135

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Hebrew Letter Alef

U+05D0

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Property Comparison

Property	Alef Symbol	Hebrew Letter Alef
Codepoint	`U+2135`	`U+05D0`
Decimal	`8501`	`1488`
HTML Entity	`ℵ`	`א`
HTML Decimal	`ℵ`	`א`
HTML Hex	`ℵ`	`א`
UTF-8	`E2 84 B5`	`D7 90`
UTF-16	`21 35`	`05 D0`
UTF-32	`00002135`	`000005D0`
CSS Escape	`\2135`	`\5D0`
JS Escape	`\u2135`	`\u05D0`
Python Escape	`\u2135`	`\u05D0`
URL Encoded	`%E2%84%B5`	`%D7%90`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Letterlike Symbols`	`Hebrew`
Script	`Common`	`Hebrew`
Bidi Class	`L`	`R`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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