U+062A "ت" Arabic Letter Teh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+062A "ت" Arabic Letter Teh is the third letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing the voiceless dental plosive sound /t/. In the standard abjad order it is numbered twenty two and in the abjadi order it holds the value four hundred. This character is widely used across languages that employ the Arabic script, including Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, and it appears in both initial, medial, and final forms depending on its position in a word. It is distinct from the similar looking letter tha ث which represents a different sound. Teh is essential for writing common words such as "kitab" (book) and "tayyib" (good) in Arabic.

General Properties

Code Point U+062A
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Teh
Unicode 1.0 Name Arabic Letter Taa
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ت
HTML Hex Encoding ت
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD8 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x062A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000062A
C/C++/Java Escape \u062a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Joining Group Beh
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter