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U+05E8 CHARACTER

HEBREW LETTER RESH

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HEBREW LETTER RESH
Code Point U+05E8
Decimal Value 1512
General Category Other Letter (Lo) →
Unicode Block Hebrew →
Script Hebrew →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D7 A8
UTF-16 Code Unit 05E8
UTF-32 4 bytes 000005E8
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 05 E8 LE: E8 05
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 05 E8 LE: E8 05 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ר
HTML Hexadecimal ר
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \0005E8
JavaScript (ES6) \u05E8
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u05E8
JSON Escape \u05E8
Python \u05E8
PHP "\u{5E8}"
Java "\u05E8"
C / C++ "\u05E8"
Rust '\u{5e8}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D7%A8

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class R — Right-to-Left
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+05E8 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
ר
Context: A ר Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
ר
Context: A ר Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
ר
Context: A ר Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
ר
Context: A ר Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name HEBREW LETTER RESH

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+05E8

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