Dalet

E81130

Dalet is the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the "d" sound and often associated with the numerical value four in Hebrew numerology.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Dalet canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew letter
alphabetFamily Semitic abjads
associatedWithNumber 4
correspondsToLatinLetter D
follows Gimel
hasAbjadValue 4
hasBlock Unicode Hebrew block
surface form: Hebrew Unicode block
hasBlockRangeEnd U+05FF
hasBlockRangeStart U+0590
hasCategory Letter
hasFinalForm false
hasGematriaUsage yes
hasLowercaseForm false
hasNameInHebrew דָּלֶת
hasNumericalValue 4
hasStandardTranscriptionDIN31635 d
hasStandardTranscriptionISO259 d
hasStrokeCountApprox 2
hasUnicodeCodePoint U+05D3
hasUnicodeName HEBREW LETTER DALET
hasUppercaseForm false
isBasicLetterOf Modern Hebrew orthography
isConsonant true
isObsoleteIn none
isTitleOfPsalmSection Psalm 119
surface form: Psalm 119 Dalet stanza
numericSystem Hebrew numerals
originatesFrom Nabataean alphabet
surface form: Phoenician letter Dalet
positionInAlphabet 4
precedes He
relatedTo Arabic letter Dal (د)
East Syriac script
surface form: Syriac letter Dalath
representsPhoneme /d/
script Hebrew script
transliteratedAs D
usedIn Hebrew alphabet
Yiddish alphabet
usedInLanguage Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Ladino
Yiddish
usedInReligiousText Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Jewish liturgy
writingDirection right-to-left
writingSystemType abjad

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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