Well (Hebrew)
Well (נון) is the fourteenth letter in the Hebrew alphabet . The name of the letter also means “fish” and the numerical value 50. If the letter is at the end of a word, it is spelled differently as the final letter. This notation is sometimes used for the numerical value 700. In the (related) Aramaic language , the word nun has the meaning of "snake", going back to the corresponding Phoenician symbol in the hieroglyphic script .
history
The Hebrew Nun has the same historical background as the Phoenician Nun , from which the Greek Ny , the Latin N and the Arabic Nun emerged .
Examples
Character encoding
| Now | End-well | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoint | U + 05e0 | U + 05df |
| Unicode name | HEBREW LETTER NOW | HEBREW LETTER FINAL NOW |
| HTML | & # 1504; | & # 1503; |
| ISO 8859-8 | 0xf0 | 0xef |
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