Tzade
The Tzade or Tzadi (צדי) - also written Ṣade, Sade, Tsadi or Zadi - is the eighteenth letter in the Hebrew alphabet . Its pronunciation in today's Hebrew corresponds almost exactly to the German "Z" as in "Zebra" (not the English soft "Z"). It has the numerical value 90.
If the letter is at the end of a word, it is called Tzade Sofit (final Tzade) and is spelled differently as the final letter. This notation is sometimes used for the number 900.
The Tzade is the only Hebrew letter that has no historical equivalent in the Greek or Latin alphabet. Only the Greek numeral Sampi goes back to it. The Tzade comes from the Phoenician letter Sade and corresponds to the Greek letter San . Both are also each the eighteenth letter in the alphabet.
Examples
Character encoding
| Tzade | Final Tzade | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoint | U + 05e6 | U + 05e5 |
| Unicode name | HEBREW LETTER TSADI | HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI |
| HTML | & # 1510; | & # 1509; |
| ISO 8859-8 | 0xf6 | 0xf5 |
Web links
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