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Yiddish Alphabet (Hebrew)

The letters and characters of Yiddish written in the Hebrew script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 916,209 people read or write it across 4 countries.

142Fonts cover the standard set
34Standard characters
916,209People
4Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Yiddish — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011–U+2013—U+2014,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E'U+0027׳U+05F3"U+0022״U+05F4(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D/U+002F־U+05BE

Where Yiddish (Hebrew) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Yiddish in the Hebrew script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
Ukraine 463,603 1.3%
Israel 282,079 3%
United States 167,562 0.05%
Sweden 2,965 0.03%

Yiddish (Hebrew) — facts

Font coverage 142 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 34 standard characters; 26 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Hebrew
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Hebrew, General Punctuation
People About 916,209 people read or write Yiddish in the Hebrew script — mostly in Ukraine, Israel, United States, Sweden.

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.