of Yud and Vav (10+6) to avoid spelling part of the Tetragrammaton. Tet is also one of the seven letters which receive special crowns (called tagin) when written in a Sefer Torah. See Shin, Ayin, Gimmel, Nun, Zayin, and Tzadi. Similar symbols A symbol similar to the Phoenician teth is used for the tensor product, as , but this is presumably an independent development, by modification of the multiplication sign ×. The Hebrew is also visually similar to the letter Ʋ. Character encodings References External links Phoenician alphabet Arabic letters Hebrew letters