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Various styles (in current terms, fonts) of representation of the Jewish script letters described in this article also exist, including a variety of cursive Hebrew styles. In the remainder of this article, the term Hebrew alphabet refers to the square script unless otherwise indicated. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. It does not have case ...
Hebrew Letter Bet: U+05D2 ג Hebrew Letter Gimel: U+05D3 ד Hebrew Letter Dalet: U+05D4 ה Hebrew Letter He: U+05D5 ו Hebrew Letter Vav: U+05D6 ז Hebrew Letter Zayin: U+05D7 ח Hebrew Letter Het: U+05D8 ט Hebrew Letter Tet: U+05D9 י Hebrew Letter Yod: U+05DA ך Hebrew Letter Final Kaf: U+05DB כ Hebrew Letter Kaf: U+05DC ל Hebrew Letter ...
A mace was a ceremonial stick or staff, similar to a scepter, perhaps derived from weapons or hunting tools. In Modern Hebrew, the word וָו vav is used to mean both "hook" and the letter's name (the name is also written וי״ו), while in Syriac and Arabic, waw to mean "hook" has fallen out of use.
Note 1: The letters "א " or "ב "represent whatever Hebrew letter is used. Note 2: The letter "ש " is used since it can only be represented by that letter. Note 3: The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk are different, however, they look the same and are inputted in the same manner. Also, they are represented by the same Unicode character.
The Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets are two slight regional variants of the same script. The first Paleo-Hebrew inscription identified in modern times was the Royal Steward inscription (KAI 191), found in 1870, and then referred to as "two large ancient Hebrew inscriptions in Phoenician letters".
The letter "vav" (ו ) was once pronounced like English "w", in contrast to its current pronunciation identical to the letter "vet" (the soft letter ב ). The Karmeli transcription (see link at bottom of page) creates additional letters based on similar Hebrew or Cyrillic letters to represent the sounds that lack Roman letters.
In Modern Hebrew, the frequency of the usage of alef, out of all the letters, is 4.94%. Aleph is sometimes used as a mater lectionis to denote a vowel, usually /a/ . That use is more common in words of Aramaic and Arabic origin, in foreign names, and some other borrowed words.
In Modern Israeli Hebrew (and Ashkenazi Hebrew, although not under strict pronunciation), the letter Ḥet (Hebrew: חֵית) usually has the sound value of a voiceless uvular fricative (/χ/), as the historical phonemes of the letters Ḥet ח (/ħ/) and Khaf כ (/x/) merged, both becoming the voiceless uvular fricative (/χ/).