י

Hebrew Letter Yod

U+05D9
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character י
Decimal י
Hex י

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+05D9
Decimal
1497
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
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

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 Yod.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
י
HTML Hex
י
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
D7 99
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
05 D9
UTF-32 Hex
000005D9
CSS Escape
\5D9
JavaScript Escape
\u05D9
Python Escape
\u05D9
URL Encoded
%D7%99
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Characters That Include This

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