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 Hebrew Unicode block
hasCaseDistinction none
hasCategoryInUnicode Letter, other
hasFinalForm none
hasGematriaCategory tens
hasHistoricalOrigin 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
hasUseInAcronyms yes
hasUseInCantillation yes
hasUseInNumerals yes
hasVoicing voiced
hasWritingDirection right-to-left
isGuttural true
partOf Hebrew alphabet
transliteratedAs `
ʕ
ʻ
ʿ
ˁ
usedIn Biblical Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic texts
Judeo-Aramaic texts
Mishnaic Hebrew
Modern Hebrew
linked to: 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 Aramaic letter ʿayin
linked to: HEBREW LETTER AYIN
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin correspondsToInPhoenician Phoenician ʿayin (𐤏)
linked to: HEBREW LETTER AYIN
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin correspondsToInHebrew Hebrew ʿayin (ע)
linked to: HEBREW LETTER AYIN
Hebrew letter Ayin hasUnicodeName HEBREW LETTER AYIN
subject linked to: HEBREW LETTER AYIN