U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah
U+0638 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
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 11 other glyphs. In text U+0638 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:
Ẓāʾ, or ḏ̣āʾ (ظ), is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād, ġayn). In name and shape, it is a variant of ṭāʾ. Its numerical value is 900 (see Abjad numerals).
Ẓāʾ ظَاءْ does not change its shape depending on its position in the word:
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1592 |
UTF-8 | D8 B8 |
UTF-16 | 06 38 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 06 38 |
URL-Quoted | %D8%B8 |
HTML hex reference | ظ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ظ |
Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | D8 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | D9 |
Adobe Glyph List | afii57432 |
Adobe Glyph List | zaharabic |
digraph | zH |
Related Characters
Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Isolated FormGlyph for U+FC28 Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Initial FormGlyph for U+FCB9 Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Medial FormGlyph for U+FD3B Arabic Letter Zah Isolated FormGlyph for U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Final FormGlyph for U+FEC6 Arabic Letter Zah Initial FormGlyph for U+FEC7 Arabic Letter Zah Medial FormGlyph for U+FEC8 Arabic Mathematical ZahGlyph for U+1EE1A Arabic Mathematical Stretched ZahGlyph for U+1EE7A Arabic Mathematical Looped ZahGlyph for U+1EE9A Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck ZahGlyph for U+1EEBA
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
ARABIC LETTER ZAH | |
ARABIC LETTER DHAH | |
Arabic | |
Other Letter | |
Arabic | |
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Not Reordered | |
None | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
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✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
Tah | |
Dual Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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