Alef Symbol ℵ
Symbol Meaning
The letter “Aleph” is present in the ancient Hebrew alphabet and Yiddish language. In modern interpretation, it represents the vowel sound ] or functions as silent. The name of the letter comes from the West Semitic word “aleph”, which means ox. The original shape of this letter was similar to the head of a bull.
The Aleph symbol is used to denote the power of an infinite set and is written with a subscript. In Kabbalistic tradition, this symbol symbolizes the boundless divinity, the beginning of the creation of the world.
Unicode offers even more symbols for writing the Hebrew letter Aleph: א, אַ.
The symbol “Alef Symbol” is included in the “Hebrew letterlike math symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
first transfinite cardinal (countable).
| Unicode Name | Alef Symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ℵ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Hebrew letterlike math symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2135 |
| Simple case change | 2135 |
| Math | + |
| Alphabetic | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 B5 | 226 132 181 | 14845109 | 11100010 10000100 10110101 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 35 | 33 53 | 8501 | 00100001 00110101 |
| UTF-16LE | 35 21 | 53 33 | 13601 | 00110101 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 35 | 0 0 33 53 | 8501 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00110101 |
| UTF-32LE | 35 21 00 00 | 53 33 0 0 | 891355136 | 00110101 00100001 00000000 00000000 |