Hebrew (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character 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| 52 (+52)
1.0.1| 51 (-1)
2.0| 82 (+31)
4.1| 86 (+4)
5.0| 87 (+1)
11.0| 88 (+1)
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 is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and other Jewish diaspora languages.

## Contents

* 1 Block
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Block

## History

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

Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 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), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997
| L2/04-156R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), 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), 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), UTC #99 Minutes
| L2/18-274 |  | McGowan, Rick (2018-09-14), Comments on Public Review Issues (July 24 - Sept 14, 2018)
| L2/18-272 |  | Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), 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
| L2/04-310 | 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), Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
| L2/15-204 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2015-07-25), 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 et al. (2017-01-21), Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
| L2/17-016 |  | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), UTC #150 Minutes

1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

## See also

* Hebrew alphabet in Unicode
* Alphabetic Presentation Forms (Unicode block)

## References

1. ↑ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum". The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/Notice.pdf. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
2. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

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