Inverted nun (נו"ן מנוזרת "isolated nun" or נו"ן הפוכה "inverted nun" in Hebrew) is a rare character - the letter nun in mirror image - which appears in the Masoretic text of the Tanakh in nine different places:

• Twice in the Book of Numbers, 10:35-36: the two verses are delineated by inverted nuns.
• Seven times in chapter 107 of the Book of Psalms,

The images at right show three common variants of the inverted nun - vertically flipped, horizontally flipped, and Z-shaped. Other renderings exist, corresponding to alternative interpretations of the term "inverted."

In the Torah

In the Torah, the inverted nuns frame the text

The nuns are generally positioned close to, but not touching, the first and last words of the couplet.

In the Talmud

The tractate Shabbat in the Talmud says regarding the inverted nuns:

Unicode

The inverted nun is not part of any word, and never pronounced, thus it is classed as punctuation and not a letter.

Glyph	Unicode	Name
׆	U+05C6	HEBREW PUNCTUATION NUN HAFUKHA

References

External link

• Nun hafucha described at sofer.co.uk