Names in Hebrew

Eugene in Hebrew

Written

יוג׳ין

With the vowels

יוּגִ׳ין

Read from right to left.

Letter by letter

  1. יy
  2. וּu
  3. גִ׳j
  4. יi
  5. ןn

Why these letters

Hebrew has no j sound: it is written ג with an apostrophe, ג׳. At the end of a word נ takes its final shape, ן. The o and u sounds are written with ו.

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