U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
U+063A 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 21 other glyphs. In text U+063A 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:
The Arabic letter غ (Arabic: غَيْنْ, ghayn or ġayn) is the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being thāʼ, khāʼ, dhāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ). It represents the sound /ɣ/ or /ʁ/. In name and shape, it is a variant of ʻayn (ع). Its numerical value is 1000 (see Abjad numerals). In the Persian language, it represents [ɣ]~[ɢ] and is the twenty-second letter in the new Persian alphabet.
Ghayn is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1594 |
UTF-8 | D8 BA |
UTF-16 | 06 3A |
UTF-32 | 00 00 06 3A |
URL-Quoted | %D8%BA |
HTML hex reference | غ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | غ |
Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | DA |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | DB |
Adobe Glyph List | afii57434 |
Adobe Glyph List | ghainarabic |
digraph | i+ |
Related Characters
Arabic Ligature Ghain with Jeem Isolated FormGlyph for U+FC2B Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem Isolated FormGlyph for U+FC2C Arabic Ligature Ghain with Jeem Initial FormGlyph for U+FCBC Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem Initial FormGlyph for U+FCBD Arabic Ligature Ghain with Alef Maksura Isolated FormGlyph for U+FCF9 Arabic Ligature Ghain with Yeh Isolated FormGlyph for U+FCFA Arabic Ligature Ghain with Alef Maksura Final FormGlyph for U+FD15 Arabic Ligature Ghain with Yeh Final FormGlyph for U+FD16 Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Meem Final FormGlyph for U+FD79 Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Yeh Final FormGlyph for U+FD7A Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final FormGlyph for U+FD7B Arabic Letter Ghain Isolated FormGlyph for U+FECD Arabic Letter Ghain Final FormGlyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Initial FormGlyph for U+FECF Arabic Letter Ghain Medial FormGlyph for U+FED0 Arabic Mathematical GhainGlyph for U+1EE1B Arabic Mathematical Initial GhainGlyph for U+1EE3B Arabic Mathematical Tailed GhainGlyph for U+1EE5B Arabic Mathematical Stretched GhainGlyph for U+1EE7B Arabic Mathematical Looped GhainGlyph for U+1EE9B Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck GhainGlyph for U+1EEBB
Confusables
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Complete Record
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ARABIC LETTER GHAIN | |
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Ain | |
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