U+062B "ث" Arabic Letter Theh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ث

U+062B "ث" Arabic Letter Theh is the third letter of the Arabic alphabet, known as "Theh" or "Thāʾ," and it represents the voiceless dental fricative sound "th" as in the English word "think." In the Arabic script, it is written with three dots placed above a curved base that resembles a small basin or bowl, distinguishing it from the similar letters Bāʾ (ب) with one dot and Nūn (ن) with one dot above a different form. This letter is used in numerous languages that employ the Arabic script, including Persian, Urdu, and Pashto, though its phonetic value may shift in some languages, such as becoming a hard "t" sound in Persian. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded under the Arabic block as a basic letter for text representation, commonly appearing in digital contexts for writing words like "ثلاثة" (thalātha, meaning "three") in Arabic.

General Properties

Code Point U+062B
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Theh
Unicode 1.0 Name Arabic Letter Thaa
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ث
HTML Hex Encoding ث
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD8 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x062B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000062B
C/C++/Java Escape \u062b

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