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Hebrew

Updated Tue 15 Oct 2017 • tags hebrew, scriptnotes

This page provides information about the characteristics of the script used to write Hebrew, as described in the Writing Systems Tutorial. It is not intended to be exhaustively scientific – merely to give a basic idea of the essential features of the script.

Click on the orange text in the table to the right to see more details about that aspect of the script. Click on red text in the main sample area to see a list of code points for that text.

Sample (Hebrew)

כאשר העולם רוצה לדבר, הוא מדבר ב־Unicode. הירשמו כעת לכנס Unicode הבינלאומי העשירי, שייערך בין התאריכים 12־10 במרץ 1997, בְּמָיְינְץ שבגרמניה. בכנס ישתתפו מומחים מכל ענפי התעשייה בנושא האינטרנט העולמי וה־Unicode, בהתאמה לשוק הבינלאומי והמקומי, ביישום Unicode במערכות הפעלה וביישומים, בגופנים, בפריסת טקסט ובמחשוב רב־לשוני.

Script name

Hebrew

Script type abjad
Number of characters 87
Case distinction no
Combining characters 51
Multiple combining characters no
Context-based positioning no
Contextual shaping no
Cursive script no
Many more glyphs than characters? no
Text direction rtl
Baseline mid
Space is word separator yes
Wraps at word
Justification spaces
Native digits? no

Click on the orange text in the features list (right column) to see examples and notes. Click on highlighted text in the Sample section to see the characters. Click on the vertical blue bar, bottom right, to change font settings.

First published 2012. This version 2017-10-15 9:12 GMT.  •  Copyright r12a@w3.org. Licence CC-By.