HEBREW LETTER AYIN

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HEBREW LETTER AYIN is a consonant in the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a voiced pharyngeal fricative and used in both liturgical and modern Hebrew writing.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
HEBREW LETTER AYIN canonical 2
Aramaic letter ʿayin 1
Hebrew ʿayin (ע) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew letter
consonant
grapheme
affectsVocalization true
cognateOf Arabic letter ʿAyn
Syriac letter ʿE
hasAbjadValue 70
hasArticulationManner fricative
hasArticulationPlace pharyngeal
hasBlock Unicode Hebrew block
surface form: Hebrew Unicode block
hasCaseDistinction none
hasCategoryInUnicode Letter, other
hasFinalForm none
hasGematriaCategory tens
hasHistoricalOrigin Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin
surface form: Phoenician letter ʿayin
hasIPAValue ʕ
hasJoiningType non-joining
hasNameInHebrew עַיִן
hasNameMeaning eye
hasNumericValue 70
hasPositionInAlphabet 16
hasScript Hebrew
hasStandardForm ע
hasTraditionalPronunciation voiced pharyngeal fricative
hasType consonantal letter
hasUnicodeCodePoint U+05E2
hasUnicodeName HEBREW LETTER AYIN self-linksurface differs
hasUseInAcronyms yes
hasUseInCantillation yes
hasUseInNumerals yes
hasVoicing voiced
hasWritingDirection right-to-left
isGuttural true
partOf Hebrew alphabet
transliteratedAs `
ʕ
ʻ
ʿ
ˁ
usedIn Hebrew
surface form: Biblical Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic texts
Judeo-Aramaic texts
Mishnaic Hebrew
Hebrew
surface form: Modern Hebrew

Yiddish orthography
liturgical Hebrew
usedInReligiousTexts Siddur
Tanakh
Torah

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ayin hasStandardNameInUnicode HEBREW LETTER AYIN
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin originOf HEBREW LETTER AYIN
this entity surface form: Aramaic letter ʿayin
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin correspondsToInPhoenician HEBREW LETTER AYIN
this entity surface form: Phoenician ʿayin (𐤏)
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin correspondsToInHebrew HEBREW LETTER AYIN
this entity surface form: Hebrew ʿayin (ע)
HEBREW LETTER AYIN hasUnicodeName HEBREW LETTER AYIN self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Hebrew letter Ayin