Hebrew (Unicode block)

Hebrew
Range U+0590..U+05FF
(112 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Hebrew
Major alphabets Hebrew
Yiddish
Assigned 87 code points
Unused 25 reserved code points
Source standards ISO 8859-8
Unicode version history
1.0.0 52 (+52)
1.0.1 51 (-1)
2.0 82 (+31)
4.1 86 (+4)
5.0 87 (+1)
Note: One character was moved from the Hebrew block to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3]

Hebrew is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and other Jewish diaspora languages.

Block

Hebrew[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+059x ֑  ֒  ֓  ֔  ֕  ֖  ֗  ֘  ֙  ֚  ֛  ֜  ֝  ֞  ֟ 
U+05Ax ֠  ֡  ֢  ֣  ֤  ֥  ֦  ֧  ֨  ֩  ֪  ֫  ֬  ֭  ֮  ֯ 
U+05Bx ְ  ֱ  ֲ  ֳ  ִ  ֵ  ֶ  ַ  ָ  ֹ  ֺ  ֻ  ּ  ֽ  ־ ֿ 
U+05Cx ׀ ׁ  ׂ  ׃ ׄ  ׅ  ׆ ׇ 
U+05Dx א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט י ך כ ל ם מ ן
U+05Ex נ ס ע ף פ ץ צ ק ר ש ת
U+05Fx װ ױ ײ ׳ ״
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 10.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hebrew block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+05B0..05B9, 05BB..05C3, 05D0..05EA, 05F0..05F4 51 (to be determined)
L2/03-234 Hudson, John (2003-08-05), More on Meteg and CGJ [1] 
L2/03-235 Whistler, Ken (2003-08-05), More on Meteg and CGJ [2] 
L2/03-236 Whistler, Ken (2003-08-05), More on Meteg and CGJ [3] 
L2/03-261 Keown, Elaine (2003-08-05), E-mail to ANSI regarding Hebrew encoding 
L2/03-297 Rosenne, Jony (2003-08-24), Hebrew Issues 
L2/04-194 Kirk, Peter (2004-06-05), On the Hebrew mark METEG 
L2/04-213 Rosenne, Jony (2004-06-07), Responses to Several Hebrew Related Items 
L2/06-104 Konstantinov, Ilya (2006-01-18), Feedback for Unicode 5.0.0: HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF is a Dash-character 
L2/06-108 Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "B.14.5 and B.11.8", UTC #107 Minutes 
2.0 U+0591..05A1, 05A3..05AF, 05C4 31 (to be determined)
4.1 U+05A2 1 L2/03-443 N2692 Shoulson, Mark; Kirk, Peter; Everson, Michael (2003-12-11), Proposal to add ATNAH HAFUKH to the BMP of the UCS 
L2/04-156R2 Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), "A.17.3", UTC #99 Minutes 
U+05C5..05C6 2 L2/03-297 Rosenne, Jony (2003-08-24), Hebrew Issues 
L2/03-299 Kirk, Peter (2003-08-25), Issues in the Representation of Pointed Hebrew in Unicode 
L2/04-089R N2714 Shoulson, Mark; Kirk, Peter; Hudson, John; Everson, Michael; Constable, Peter (2004-03-04), Proposal to add two Masoretic punctuation marks to the BMP of the UCS 
L2/04-156R2 Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), "A.17.4", UTC #99 Minutes 
U+05C7 1 L2/03-297 Rosenne, Jony (2003-08-24), Hebrew Issues 
L2/04-150 N2755 Everson, Michael; Shoulson, Mark (2004-05-03), Proposal to add QAMATS QATAN to the BMP of the UCS 
L2/04-213 Rosenne, Jony (2004-06-07), Responses to Several Hebrew Related Items 
N2821 Everson, Michael; Shoulson, Mark (2004-06-21), Clarification on the name QAMATS QATAN 
L2/04-346 Kirk, Peter (2004-08-12), Proposal to change the provisional code point allocations for proposed characters HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV and HEBREW POINT QAMATS QATAN 
L2/04-156R2 Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), "A.17.5", UTC #99 Minutes 
5.0 U+05BA 1 L2/03-297 Rosenne, Jony (2003-08-24), Hebrew Issues 
L2/04-193 Kirk, Peter (2004-06-05), On the Hebrew vowel HOLAM 
L2/04-213 Rosenne, Jony (2004-06-07), Responses to Several Hebrew Related Items 
L2/04-306 Kirk, Peter (2004-07-29), Background material for the proposal on the Hebrew vowel HOLAM 
L2/04-307 Kirk, Peter; Shmidman, Avi; Cowan, John; Hopp, Ted; Peterson, Trevor; Lowery, Kirk; Keown, Elaine; Robertson, Stuart (2004-07-29), New proposal on the Hebrew vowel HOLAM 
L2/04-310 N2840 Everson, Michael; Shoulson, Mark (2004-07-29), Proposal to add HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV to the BMP of the UCS 
L2/04-313 Kirk, Peter (2004-08-02), Response to "Proposal to add HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV" 
L2/04-326 Rosenne, Jony (2004-08-02), UTC - Holam proposals 
L2/04-327 Hudson, John (2004-08-03), Distinction of Vav Haluma and Holam Male 
L2/04-346 Kirk, Peter (2004-08-12), Proposal to change the provisional code point allocations for proposed characters HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV and HEBREW POINT QAMATS QATAN 
L2/04-344 Everson, Michael; Shoulson, Mark (2004-08-18), Disunification costs regarding HOLAM and VAV in Hebrew 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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