Hebrew Letter Yod is the Unicode character י at codepoint U+05D9 in the Hebrew block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Hebrew Letter Yod
To use the Hebrew Letter Yod symbol (י) in HTML, insert the
entity י directly into your markup. The decimal entity י works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\5D9';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u05D9' evaluates to י. In Python source, write '\u05D9'.
The character encodes to D7 99 as UTF-8 bytes and 05D9 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 1497.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.