ס
U+05E1

HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH

Lo — Other Letter
Hebrew
Hebrew
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
1505

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 D7 A1 215 161 2
UTF-16 LE E1 05 225 5 2
UTF-16 BE 05 E1 5 225 2
UTF-32 LE E1 05 00 00 225 5 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 05 E1 0 0 5 225 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
ס
ס
\5E1
\u05E1
%D7%A1
\u05e1
1505

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
D7
·
Byte 2
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
A1
UTF-8: D7 A1 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+05E1

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
R — Right-to-Left

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