Hiriq
Ḥiriq
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ִ | |
IPA | Hebrew: i Yiddish: ɪ |
Transliteration | i |
English approximation | Hebrew: ski Yiddish: skip |
Ḥiriq Example
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נִקּוּד | |
Ḥiriq male Example
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תִּינוֹק | |
Other Niqqud | |
Sin/Shin Dot |
Hiriq, also called Chirik (
Spelling
When writing with niqqud, the letter
In Yiddish orthography the ḥiriq is placed under the yud ⟨יִ⟩.
Pronunciation
The following table contains the pronunciation and transliteration of the different Hiriqs in reconstructed historical forms and dialects using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The letter
Symbol | Name | Pronunciation | ||||||
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Israeli
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Ashkenazi | Sephardi
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Yemenite
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Tiberian | Reconstructed | |||
Mishnaic | Biblical | |||||||
בִ | Hiriq | [i] | [i] | [i, iː] | [i] | [i, iː] | ? | [ɪ] |
בִי | Ḥiriq male (Also called, Ḥiriq Yud) |
[i] | [iː] | [iː] | [iː] | [iː] | ? | [iː] |
Vowel length comparison
These vowels lengths are not manifested in Modern Hebrew. In addition, the short i is usually promoted to a long i in Israeli writing for the sake of disambiguation.
Vowel comparison table | |||||
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Vowel Length
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IPA
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Transliteration | English approximation | ||
Long | Short | Very Short | |||
ִי | ִ | n/a | [i] | i | ski |
Yiddish orthography style | |||||
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Vowel | IPA | Transliteration | English approximation | ||
No length distinction | |||||
יִ | [ɪ] | i | skip |
Note: In Yiddish orthography only, the glyph, yud-ḥiriq (יִ), pronounced /i/, can be optionally used, rather than typing yud then ḥiriq (יִ). In Hebrew spelling this would be pronounced /ji/. /i/ is written ḥiriq then yud (ִי).
Computer encoding
Glyph | Unicode | Name |
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ִ | U+05B4 | HIRIQ |