Hebrew (Unicode block)

Hebrew
Range	U+0590..U+05FF (112 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Hebrew
Major alphabets	Hebrew Yiddish
Assigned	88 code points
Unused	24 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)
11.0 (2018)	88 (+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^[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 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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

More information Version, Final code points ...

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+05B0..05B9, 05BB..05C3, 05D0..05EA, 05F0..05F4	51	UTC/1991-053			Rosenne, Jony (1991-03-26), Hebrew
			UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "5) Hebrew", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
					N1026	Liaison Report - Encoding Newsletter, April 1994
				X3L2/94-098	N1033 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1994-06-01), "8.1.14", Unconfirmed Minutes of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 Meeting 25, Falez Hotel, Antalya, Turkey, 1994-04-18--22
				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, B.11.8", UTC #107 Minutes
2.0	U+0591..05A1, 05A3..05AF, 05C4	31			N1079R	Hebrew cantillation marks in ISO/IEC 10646-1
					N1117	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1994-10-31), "7.2.2 item f", Unconfirmed Minutes of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 Meeting 26, Tuscan Inn - Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, CA, UAS; 1994-10-10 through 14
					N1079RA	Summary Proposal Form and Examples
					N1079R2	Hebrew cantillation marks in ISO/IEC 10646-1
					N1195	Hebrew Cantillation marks
					N1203	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.8", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
					N1217	Further clarifications regarding WG2 N1195, 1995-05-21
				X3L2/95-090	N1253 (doc, txt)	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-09-09), "6.4.3", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting # 28 in Helsinki, Finland; 1995-06-26--27
					N1315	Updated Table of replies and national body feedback on pDAM7 - Additional characters (SC2 N2656), 1996-01-09
					N1539	Table of Replies and Feedback on Amendment 7 – Hebrew etc., 1997-01-29
				L2/97-127	N1563	Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-27), Draft Report on JTC1 letter ballot on DAM No. 7 to ISO/IEC 10646-1 (33 additional characters)
					N1572	Paterson, Bruce (1997-06-23), Almost Final Text – DAM 7 – 33 additional characters
				L2/97-288	N1603	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "5.3.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
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
	U+05A2	1		L2/04-156R2		Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), "Atnah Hafukh (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), "Two Hebrew punctuation marks (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), "QAMATS QATAN (A.17.5)", UTC #99 Minutes
				L2/18-274		McGowan, Rick (2018-09-14), "Identifier_Type of U+05C7 HEBREW POINT QAMATS QATAN", Comments on Public Review Issues (July 24 - Sept 14, 2018)
				L2/18-272		Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "157-C17 Consensus", UTC #157 Minutes, Change the Identifier_Type of U+05C7 HEBREW POINT QAMATS QATAN from "Obsolete" to "Uncommon_Use Technical" for Unicode version 12.0.
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
11.0	U+05EF	1			N1740 (html, doc)	Shoulson, Mark; Everson, Michael (1998-05-09), Proposal to add the Hebrew Tetragrammaton to ISO/IEC 10646
					N1807 (pdf, doc, txt)	Rosenne, Jonathan (1998-07-07), Israeli Response to the Tetragrammaton Proposal N1740
				L2/15-092		Shoulson, Mark (2015-03-10), Typographic Concerns and the Hebrew Nomina Sacra
				L2/15-149		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "24 Hebrew Nomina Sacra", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
				L2/15-204		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "14. Hebrew Nomina Sacra", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
				L2/16-305	N4807	Shoulson, Mark (2016-10-28), Proposal to add HEBREW YOD TRIANGLE
				L2/17-037		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "16. Hebrew", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
				L2/17-016		Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "C.12", UTC #150 Minutes
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Hebrew (Unicode block)

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