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Glyph for U+0630
Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal

U+0630 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0600 to U+06FF Arabic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Arabic Letter and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 6 other glyphs. In text U+0630 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Ḏāl (ذ, also be transcribed as dhāl) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents /ð/. In name and shape, it is a variant of dāl (د). Its numerical value is 700 (see abjad numerals). The Arabic letter ذ is named ذَالْ ḏāl. It is written in several ways depending in its position in the word:

The South Arabian alphabet retained a symbol for , .

When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ד׳‎.

This sound is found in English, as in the words "those" or "then". In English the sound is normally rendered "dh" when transliterated from foreign languages, but when it occurs in English words it is one of the pronunciations occurring for the letters "th".

Representations

System Representation
1584
UTF-8 D8 B0
UTF-16 06 30
UTF-32 00 00 06 30
URL-Quoted %D8%B0
HTML hex reference ذ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ø°
Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) D0
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) D0
Adobe Glyph List afii57424
Adobe Glyph List thalarabic
digraph dk

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name ARABIC LETTER THAL
Unicode 1 Name
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Script Arabic
Bidirectional Category Arabic Letter
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Case Folding Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group Dal
Joining Type Right Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R