Hebrew Letters: Nun

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The next letter of the Hebrew Alphabet is called Nun, pronounced noon, to rhyme with words like soon or moon.

  Hebrew audio: Listen to the sound of Nun.

Here is what the Hebrew letter Nun looks like:

 
Nun is pronounced with a n sound, like the words Naaman, Nahum or Noah.

Like Kaf and Mem, Nun is one of the letters with a special form when it occurs at the end of a Hebrew word.

Here is what the final form looks like:


The final form has a tail which goes below the line.


Here is how to write Nun:



Nun is one of the four Hebrew letters on the Dreidel, which is a spinning top used for playing games during the festival of Hannukah.

Practise writing Nun in the grid lines below:









Both forms of Nun have the Gematria (numerical value) of 50.

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