Ayin
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| Phoenician | Hebrew | |
|---|---|---|
| ע | ע | |
Ayin is the sixteenth letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Omicron, Latin O, and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet. Ayin, like all Phoenician letters, represented a consonant but the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letters all represent vowels.
In Hebrew, the letter Ayin has a numeric value of 70.