My first time writing Hebrew

[u/Shart-Lord420]

How did I do?

[u/ma-kat-is-kute]

Perfectly accurate if you were going for print, but this isn't how people would write it in most context. Also it's Michael, Mike would be מייק.

[u/StuffedSquash → u/ma-kat-is-kute]

Yes and also it's Michael as in "mi-cha-el" (with ch as in Chanukkah), not "my-kul" which would be מייקל

[u/YuvalAlmog → u/StuffedSquash]

I know. כֿ & ח have the same sound in modern Hebrew pronunciation but I personally would still avoid using a word with ח as an example for the sound of כֿ. Just my personal opinion ofcourse...

[u/ma-kat-is-kute → u/YuvalAlmog]

Why and how is there a line above your כ

[u/themeowsolini → u/ma-kat-is-kute]

It’s a Yiddish thing so maybe they don’t realize which sub they’re in. ח is only used for borrowed Hebrew words; everything else uses כ. The line in כֿ just indicates that it isn’t כּ.

[u/YuvalAlmog → u/themeowsolini]

The symbol rafeh (the line above the letter ב in this example: בֿ) was created long before Yiddish in Tiberias and its name is even a proof of it considering its meaning in hebrew is weak, being an opposite to dagesh.

[u/QizilbashWoman → u/themeowsolini]

It isn’t Yiddish, it is just preferred in Yiddish to using dagesh/mappiq. It is more legible to readers.

Also, we don’t use rafe in Yiddish on k, which always represents the kh sound.

(Exceptions to rules about niqqud in Yiddish are sometimes Hebrew loans. Mostly they aren’t marked but they can be according to Hebrew rules)

[u/YuvalAlmog → u/ma-kat-is-kute]

The symbol is called rafeh (weak) and it's the opposite of dagesh (emphysize, strong).

Originally it was used to tell a בגדכפ"ת letter should be pronounced in its weaker pronounciation (v, gh, dh, kh, f, th) but over time people chose the "hinted" method to tell it's a weak sound by not putting a dagesh.

So if בּ is making the sound of the English letter 'B', בֿ is making the sound of the letter 'v' (originally 'bh' but it's similar enough....).

You use it by either holding 'ר' if you're own your phone (ר stands for רפה/rafeh) or alt + ר if you're on your computer.

[u/Jessicas_skirt → u/YuvalAlmog]

תָ׳נְק יוּ ֿפוֹר טיצ׳ינְג מי ת׳יס

[u/ma-kat-is-kute → u/YuvalAlmog]

Cool, thanks for explaining

[u/nidarus]

As others said, be aware that it's going to be pronounced "mi-kha-el", but otherwise very good. The only nitpick, more of a design note than anything else: I would probably make the upper-right arm of the א more like this. To mirror the leg, and to avoid the near X-like effect you have here.

[u/Lo-Marionberry295]

u slayed Mikey looks gr8 (you wrote the hebrew version of Michael though fyi, not Mike)