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Namely, the upper cusp of the Yod is Arich Anpin and the main body of Yod is and Abba; the first Hei is Imma; the Vav is Ze`ir Anpin and the second Hei is Nukvah. It unfolds in this aforementioned order and "in the mystery of the four expansions" that are constituted by the following various spellings of the letters:
Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic yฤสพ ู , Aramaic yod ๐ก, Hebrew yud ื , Phoenician yลd ๐ค, and Syriac yลแธ. Its sound value is / j / in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel , representing / iห / .
In the Unicode code chart the HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE VAV appears in position U+05F0, the HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH VAV YOD at U+05F1, and the HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE YOD at U+05F2 (where the U+ indicates that the numerical position of the character in the Unicode chart is given by following four hexadecimal digits).
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 ...
Hebrew Letter He: U+05D5 ื Hebrew Letter Vav: U+05D6 ื Hebrew Letter Zayin: U+05D7 ื Hebrew Letter Het: U+05D8 ื Hebrew Letter Tet: U+05D9 ื Hebrew Letter Yod: U+05DA ื Hebrew Letter Final Kaf: U+05DB ื Hebrew Letter Kaf: U+05DC ื Hebrew Letter Lamed: U+05DD ื Hebrew Letter Final Mem: U+05DE ื Hebrew Letter Mem: U+05DF ื Hebrew ...
The Hebrew alphabet contains 22 letters, all of which are primarily consonants. This is because the Hebrew script is an abjad, that is, its letters indicate consonants, not vowels or syllables. An early system to overcome this, still used today, is matres lectionis, where four of these letters, alef, he, vav and yud also serve
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The mater lectionis letter which is usually employed with holam is vav, although in a few words, the letters alef or he are used instead of vav. When it is used with a mater lectionis , the holam is called holam male ( ืืึนืึธื ืึธืึตื , IPA: [χoหlam maหle] , "full holam"), and without it the holam is called holam haser ...