Hebrew alphabet

:This article is mainly about Hebrew letters. For Hebrew diacritical marks, see niqqud (for the vowel points) and cantillation.

Main table

The following table is a breakdown of each letter in the Hebrew alphabet, describing its written glyph or glyphs, its name or names, its Latin script transliteration values used in academic work, and its pronunciation in reconstructed historical forms and dialects using the International Phonetic Alphabet. If two glyphs are shown for a letter, then the left-most glyph is the Final form of the letter (or right-most glyph if your browser doesn't support right-to-left text layout).

Related Topics:
Glyph - Latin script - Transliteration - Pronunciation - Dialects - International Phonetic Alphabet

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Name and transliteration

Numerical value and pronunciation

Notes

• unwritten in initial and final positions, though often not written at all
• unwritten in final positions
• archaic
• h initial or after consonants, ch everywhere else
• velarized or pharyngealized
• pharyngealized
• sometimes said to be ejective but more likely glottalized.
• i in final positions or before consonants
• often not written at all