U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah
U+0638 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arabic in the 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 no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0638 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 11 other glyphs.
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). It is also one of the ten letters the Persian alphabet added from the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being s̱e, xe, ẕâl, zâd, ġayn, pe, che, že and gaf). 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 |
|---|---|
| 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: CP720 (hex bytes) | E2 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | D9 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 31 85 36 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | D8 |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 90 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57432 |
| Adobe Glyph List | zaharabic |
| digraph | zH |
Related Characters
- Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Medial Form
- Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Zah Final Form
- Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form
- Arabic Letter Zah Medial Form
- Arabic Mathematical Zah
- Arabic Mathematical Stretched Zah
- Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah
- Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Zah
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER ZAH | |
| ARABIC LETTER DHAH | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Tah | |
| Dual Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Zah | |
| R |