U+05E8 Hebrew Letter Resh
U+05E8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Hebrew in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hebrew script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This letter joins with other adjacent letters and numbers to form a word. The word that U+05E8 forms with similar adjacent characters and the hyphen prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Resh (IPA: /ɹɛʃ/) is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic rāʾ ر, Aramaic rēš 𐡓, Hebrew rēš ר, Phoenician rēš 𐤓, and Syriac rēš ܪ. Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually [r] or [ɾ], but also [ʁ] or [ʀ] in Hebrew and North Mesopotamian Arabic.
In most Semitic alphabets, the letter resh (and its equivalents) is quite similar to the letter dalet (and its equivalents). In the Syriac alphabet, the letters became so similar that now they are only distinguished by a dot: resh has a dot above the letter, and the otherwise identical dalet has a dot below the letter. In the Arabic alphabet, rāʼ has a longer tail than dāl. In the Aramaic and Hebrew square alphabet, resh is a rounded single stroke while dalet is a right-angle of two strokes.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek rho (Ρ/ρ), Etruscan , Latin R, and Cyrillic Р.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1512 |
| UTF-8 | D7 A8 |
| UTF-16 | 05 E8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 05 E8 |
| URL-Quoted | %D7%A8 |
| HTML hex reference | ר |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ר |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 68 |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 98 |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 98 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 FB 36 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 68 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57688 |
| Adobe Glyph List | resh |
| Adobe Glyph List | reshhebrew |
| digraph | R+ |
Related Characters
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HEBREW LETTER RESH | |
| — | |
| Hebrew | |
| Other Letter | |
| Hebrew | |
| Right To Left | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| Yes | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Hebrew Letter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Hebrew Letter Resh | |
| R |