Yodh
Sign in to saveYodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yod , Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic yāʾ . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪚, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . Its sound value is in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel, representing .
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- Yodh
- Semitic letter.previouslink
- Teth
- Semitic letter.previousletter
- Teth
- Semitic letter.nextlink
- Kaph
- Semitic letter.nextletter
- Kaph
- Semitic letter.archar
- ي
- Semitic letter.sychar
- ܝ
- Semitic letter.hechar
- י
- Semitic letter.smchar
- ࠉ
- Semitic letter.amchar
- 𐡉
- Semitic letter.nbchar
- 𐢍𐢌
- Semitic letter.gechar
- የ
- Semitic letter.ugchar
- 𐎊
- Semitic letter.phchar
- 𐤉
- Semitic letter.nachar
- 𐪚
- Semitic letter.sachar
- 𐩺
- Semitic letter.grchar
- Ι
- Semitic letter.lachar
- I, J, İ, J̇
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14 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Arabic yāʼ
- Alif maqṣūrah
- Perso-Arabic ye
- Returned yāʾ
- Hebrew yod
- Pronunciation
- Significance
- In religion
- Yiddish
- Syriac yod
- Character encodings
- References
- External links
Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yod , Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic yāʾ . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪚, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . Its sound value is in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel, representing .
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota (Ι), Latin I and J, Cyrillic І, Coptic (Ⲓ) and Gothic eis 4px.