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Stylistic variants

The following table displays typographic and chirographic variants of each letter. For the five letters that have a different final form used at the end of words, the final forms are displayed beneath the regular form.

The block (square, or "print" type) and cursive ("handwritten" type) are the only variants in widespread contemporary use. Rashi is also used, for historical reasons, in a handful of standard texts.

Letter
name
(Unicode)
Variants
Contemporary Early modern Ancestral Older Greek
Block serif Block sans-serif Cursive Rashi Phoenician Paleo-Hebrew Aramaic Greek Orkhon
Alef א א 𐤀 Alef Α 𐰁 𐰂
Bet ב ב 𐤁 Bet Β 𐰌 𐰉
Gimel ג ג 𐤂 Gimel Γ 𐰏 𐰍 𐰐
Dalet ד ד 𐤃 Daled Δ 𐰓 𐰑 𐰖 - ДЖ 𐰘 - дж
He ה ה 𐤄 Heh Ε 𐰅
Vav (Unicode)[1] / Waw ו ו 𐤅 Vav Ϝ
Zayin ז ז 𐤆 Zayin Ζ 𐰔
Chet ח ח 𐤇 Khet Η
Tet ט ט 𐤈 Tet Θ
Yod י י 𐤉 Yud Ι 𐰄
Kaf כ כ 𐤊 Khof Κ 𐰚 𐰴 𐰸 𐰝 𐰜
Final Kaf ך ך
Lamed ל ל 𐤋 Lamed Λ 𐰞 𐰠
Mem מ מ 𐤌 Mem Μ 𐰢
Final Mem ם ם
Nun נ נ 𐤍 Nun Ν 𐰣 𐰤 𐰭
Final Nun ן ן
Samekh ס ס 𐤎 Samekh Ξ
Ayin ע ע 𐤏 Ayin Ο 𐰆
Pe פ פ 𐤐 Pey Π 𐰯
Final Pe ף ף
Tsadi צ צ 𐤑 Tzadi , Ϻ
Final Tsadi ץ ץ
Qof ק ק 𐤒 Quf Ϙ
Resh ר ר 𐤓 Resh Ρ 𐰺 𐰼
Shin ש ש 𐤔 Shin Σ 𐰔
Tav ת ת 𐤕 Tof Τ 𐱃 𐱅
Υ 𐰈
Φ
Χ
Ψ
Ω

Yiddish symbols

Symbol Explanation
{{{1}}} These are intended for Yiddish. They are not used in Hebrew, aside from in loan words[d].
{{{1}}} The rafe (רפה‎) diacritic is no longer regularly used in Hebrew. In Masoretic Texts and some other older texts, lenited consonants and sometimes matres lectionis are indicated by a small line on top of the letter. Its use has been largely discontinued in modern printed texts. It is still used to mark fricative consonants in the YIVO orthography of Yiddish.