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 |