א

Hebrew Letter Alef

U+05D0
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character א
Decimal א
Hex א

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+05D0
Decimal
1488
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Block
Hebrew
Script
Hebrew
Bidi class
R Right-to-Left
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
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Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Hebrew Letter Alef.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
א
HTML Hex
א
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
D7 90
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
05 D0
UTF-32 Hex
000005D0
CSS Escape
\5D0
JavaScript Escape
\u05D0
Python Escape
\u05D0
URL Encoded
%D7%90
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Hebrew Letter Alef as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.