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 (1991) | 52 (+52) |
| 1.0.1 (1992) | 51 (-1) |
| 2.0 (1996) | 82 (+31) |
| 4.1 (2005) | 86 (+4) |
| 5.0 (2006) | 87 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| 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 | ׯ | ||||
| U+05Fx | װ | ױ | ײ | ׳ | ״ | |||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hebrew block:
| Final code points[a] | Count | Version | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U+0591..05A1, 05A3..05AF, 05C4 | 31 | 2.0 | (to be determined) | ||
| U+05A2 | 1 | 4.1 | 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+05B0..05B9, 05BB..05C3, 05D0..05EA, 05F0..05F4 | 51 | 1.0.0 | (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 | ||||
| U+05BA | 1 | 5.0 | 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 | ||||
| U+05C5..05C6 | 2 | 4.1 | 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 | 4.1 | 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 | ||||
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See also
- Hebrew alphabet in Unicode
- Alphabetic Presentation Forms (Unicode block)
References
- ^ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.