Ayin

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Hebrew letter Semitic letter

Ayin is the sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a voiced pharyngeal fricative and often functioning as a silent consonant in modern Hebrew.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
עַיִן 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew letter ⓘ
Semitic letter ⓘ
alphabet Hebrew alphabet ⓘ
blockInUnicode Hebrew ⓘ
category consonant letter ⓘ
cognateInArabic ʿAyn ⓘ
ع ⓘ
cognateInPhoenician 𐤏 ⓘ
cognateInSyriac ʿE ⓘ
ܥ ⓘ
derivedFrom Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin ⓘ
hasAbjadValue 70 ⓘ
hasCaseDistinction no ⓘ
hasFinalForm no ⓘ
hasHebrewBlockCode 05E2 ⓘ
hasJoiningType non-joining ⓘ
hasLineage Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Paleo-Hebrew alphabet

Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Proto-Canaanite script ⓘ
hasStandardNameInUnicode HEBREW LETTER AYIN ⓘ
hasStrokeCountApproximate 1 ⓘ
hasUnicodeCodePoint U+05E2 ⓘ
historicalOriginMeaning eye ⓘ
IPATraditional ʕ ⓘ
isMaterLectionis sometimes ⓘ
nameInHebrew Ayin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: עַיִן
numericalValueSystem Hebrew numerals ⓘ
pictographicOrigin eye symbol ⓘ
positionInAlphabet 16 ⓘ
positionRelativeToPe before Pe ⓘ
positionRelativeToSamekh after Samekh ⓘ
representsSoundInModernHebrew glottal stop ⓘ
silent consonant ⓘ
representsSoundTraditionally voiced pharyngeal fricative ⓘ
script Hebrew script ⓘ
scriptType abjad ⓘ
transliteratedAs ʕ ⓘ
ʻ ⓘ
ʿ ⓘ
ʿayin ⓘ
ˁ ⓘ
transliteratedAsInModernIsraeliUsage apostrophe ⓘ
transliteratedAsInScholarlyWorks ʿ ⓘ
usedInLanguage Hebrew ⓘ
usedInLanguageFamily Northwest Semitic ⓘ
surface form: Northwest Semitic languages
usedInReligiousText Tanakh ⓘ
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Jewish liturgy ⓘ
writingDirection right-to-left ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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

Ayin → nameInHebrew → Ayin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: עַיִן