1. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (Nun), ג (Gimel), ה (Hei), or ש (Shin). The are an acronym for the phrase "נס גדול היה שם" (Nes Gadol Hayah Sham – "a great miracle happened there" referring to the miracle of Hanukkah).
The letters of Dreidel also form a mnemonic for the rules of a gambling game played with the dreidel: Nun stands for the Yiddish word nisht ("nothing"), Hei stands for halb ("half"), Gimel for gants ("all"), and Shin for shtel arayn ("put in").
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