Yud - Definition

Yud י is the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and thus also represents the number ten in gematria. Its script is a small suspended point, the little that holds much.

י

• Name
  • Academic
    • Unicode: yôḏ
    • Font-friendly: yôdh
    • ISO-8859-1-friendly: yôdh
  • Unicode Standard: yod
  • Israeli: yod/yud
  • Ashkenazi: yud
• Transliteration
  • Academic: y
  • Israeli: y, i (in final positions or before consonants)
• Vowel Formations: î, ê, ệ
• Numerical Value: 10
• Pronunciation
  • IPA
    • Modern Israeli: [ j ]
    • Ashkenazi: [ j ]
    • Sephardi: [ j ]
    • Yemenite: [ j ]
    • Tiberian: [ j ]
    • Reconstructed Mishnaic: [ j ]
    • Reconstructed Biblical: [ j ]
  • SAMPA
    • Modern Israeli: j

External link

• The Mystical Significance of the Hebrew Letters: Yud (http://www.inner.org/hebleter/yud.htm)