U+062E "خ" Arabic Letter Khah Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

خ

U+062E "خ" Arabic Letter Khah is a consonant in the Arabic alphabet representing the voiceless uvular fricative sound /x/, similar to the "ch" in the Scottish "loch" or the German "Bach". It is the seventh letter of the alphabet, positioned after the letter ح (Ha) and before د (Dal), and is used in Arabic script for languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Pashto. Written with a distinctive dot placed above the letter ح, it appears in final, medial, and initial forms depending on its position in a word, and it is a key component of the abjad writing system where letters primarily represent consonants.

General Properties

Code Point U+062E
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Khah
Unicode 1.0 Name Arabic Letter Khaa
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding خ
HTML Hex Encoding خ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD8 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x062E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000062E
C/C++/Java Escape \u062e

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 Hah
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