Mazalogy · Hebrew letter reference in English
Tsadi: Hebrew letter forms and values
Identify Tsadi צ and final ץ, compare standard, ordinal and reduced-letter values, and check צדקה in its cited Hebrew source.
Published · Our editorial approach
Pair ordinary Tsadi with its final form
| Form | Character | Unicode code point | Unicode 17.0 name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary Tsadi | צ | U+05E6 | HEBREW LETTER TSADI |
| Final Tsadi | ץ | U+05E5 | HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI |
Tsadi / Tzadi / Tsade; also called Tzadik in some materials. Reading cue: ts/tz.
Tsadi has ordinary צ and final ץ shapes. The different English spellings in reference books do not add alphabet positions. The printed Hebrew form and Unicode identity provide a stable way to compare charts using Tsadi, Tzadi or Tsade.
צדקה shows ordinary Tsadi at the beginning. ארץ shows final Tsadi at the end. In the first passage, the English gloss is righteousness. Preserve that context instead of assuming that every later use of the same word has precisely the same English explanation.
One letter, three explicit values
| Standard | Ordinal | Reduced letters |
|---|---|---|
| 90 | 18 | 9 |
Both shapes retain standard 90, ordinal 18 and reduced 9 here. The reduced total for צדקה is a sum of individual letter values and remains greater than one digit. Reducing that completed sum again would be another operation, absent from this atlas’s small method.
צדקה: righteousness in this passage
Pointed source form: צְדָקָה · reading cue: tzedakah. Genesis 18:19 · Mechon Mamre.
The word appears alongside justice. Read the surrounding sentence before assigning a modern context or a symbolic claim to the isolated noun.
| Reading position | Written letter | Base letter | Standard | Ordinal | Reduced letters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | צ | צ | 90 | 18 | 9 |
| 2 | ד | ד | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | ק | ק | 100 | 19 | 1 |
| 4 | ה | ה | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Word total | 199 | 46 | 19 | ||
Standard: 90 + 4 + 100 + 5 = 199 · Ordinal: 18 + 4 + 19 + 5 = 46 · Reduced letters: 9 + 4 + 1 + 5 = 19
ארץ: earth / land
Pointed source form: אֶרֶץ · reading cue: eretz. Genesis 1:10 · Mechon Mamre.
This occurrence lacks the attached Heh used in הארץ. The calculation keeps that difference visible, as well as final Tsadi.
| Reading position | Written letter | Base letter | Standard | Ordinal | Reduced letters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | א | א | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | ר | ר | 200 | 20 | 2 |
| 3 | ץ | צ | 90 | 18 | 9 |
| Word total | 291 | 39 | 12 | ||
Standard: 1 + 200 + 90 = 291 · Ordinal: 1 + 20 + 18 = 39 · Reduced letters: 1 + 2 + 9 = 12
Its group in the Gra version of Sefer Yetzirah
Tsadi צ is among the twelve simple letters / elementals listed in Gra 5:1: הוזחטילנסעצק. Keep this textual classification distinct from the alphabet position and the arithmetic columns above.
Study the source in a guided introduction · Read about textual versions
Continue from this letter
Try a word in the free calculator · Print the values chart · All twenty-two letter entries
Sources, dates and conventions
Prepared by Mazalogy with AI assistance. Characters, source-word spellings and calculation rules were checked against the sources and the calculator on . Reading cues introduce the cited chart; pronunciation varies by community. Source attribution does not imply outside review or endorsement.
- Unicode 17.0 · Hebrew, section 9.1: direction, points and final forms
- Unicode 17.0 · NamesList: Hebrew character names and code points
- Chabad · The Hebrew Alphabet: letter chart, sounds and values
- GalEinai · Four Methods for Doing Gematria: distinguish counting conventions
- Sefer Yetzirah · Gra version 5:1, the twelve simple letters
- Mechon Mamre · Genesis 18:19, Hebrew text with JPS 1917 English
- Mechon Mamre · Genesis 1:10, Hebrew text with JPS 1917 English
English reference edition. Numerical examples retain final forms and actual vowel letters while ignoring pronunciation marks. Final forms keep base-letter values in all three methods. Reduced letters are added without reducing the completed word total again.