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Unlike the Paleo-Hebrew writing script, the modern Hebrew script has five letters that have special final forms, called sofit (Hebrew: סופית, meaning in this context "final" or "ending") form, used only at the end of a word, somewhat as in the Greek or in the Arabic and Mandaic alphabets.
As with all handwriting, cursive Hebrew displays considerable individual variation. The forms in the table below are representative of those in present-day use. [5] The names appearing with the individual letters are taken from the Unicode standard and may differ from their designations in the various languages using them—see Hebrew alphabet § Pronunciation for variation in letter names.
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 ...
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.
In Modern Hebrew, to modify the sounds of certain letters, as in the names George ג׳וֹרג׳ and Charlie צָ׳רלִי. When transliterating foreign words into Hebrew. For example, Rashi often uses Hebrew letters to write French translations of Biblical Hebrew, marking it with a gershayim like an abbreviation (ex. אפייצימנ״טו ...
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic bāʾ ب , Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Hebrew bēt ב , Phoenician bēt 𐤁, and Syriac bēṯ ܒ. . Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop b or the voiced labiodental fricative v
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.
Ktav Ashuri (Hebrew: כְּתָב אַשּׁוּרִי , k'tav ashurí, lit. "Assyrian Writing") also (Ktav) Ashurit, is the traditional Hebrew language name of the Hebrew alphabet, used to write both Hebrew and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. It is often referred to as (the) Square script.