Dalet Symbol ℸ
Symbol Meaning
Dalet or daleth is a letter represented in the Hebrew alphabet. In modern Yiddish phonetics, it represents the sound ], and also has a numerical value of 4. The dalet symbol originates from a pictogram that schematically depicts a door. An ancient letter, resembling an open entrance, can be seen in the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet.
The dalet symbol is used to write words in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, and other Jewish languages. As an abbreviation, this symbol can denote King David (his name is written as דוד). The Unicode standard includes dalet with a simpler rendering ד and a wide dalet ﬢ.
The symbol “Dalet Symbol” is included in the “Hebrew letterlike math symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
fourth transfinite cardinal.
| Unicode Name | Dalet Symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ℸ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Hebrew letterlike math symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2138 |
| Simple case change | 2138 |
| Math | + |
| Alphabetic | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 B8 | 226 132 184 | 14845112 | 11100010 10000100 10111000 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 38 | 33 56 | 8504 | 00100001 00111000 |
| UTF-16LE | 38 21 | 56 33 | 14369 | 00111000 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 38 | 0 0 33 56 | 8504 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00111000 |
| UTF-32LE | 38 21 00 00 | 56 33 0 0 | 941686784 | 00111000 00100001 00000000 00000000 |