ש

Hebrew Letter Shin

U+05E9
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ש
Decimal ש
Hex ש

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+05E9
Decimal
1513
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 Shin.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ש
HTML Hex
ש
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
D7 A9
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
05 E9
UTF-32 Hex
000005E9
CSS Escape
\5E9
JavaScript Escape
\u05E9
Python Escape
\u05E9
URL Encoded
%D7%A9
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Characters That Include This

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