U+062F "د" Arabic Letter Dal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

د

U+062F "د" Arabic Letter Dal is the twenty-eighth letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar plosive sound, similar to the English "d" in "dog". In its isolated form, it appears as a simple curved shape with a single downward stroke, and it connects only to preceding letters in Arabic script, never to following ones, making it a non-connective letter. This character is used across many languages that employ the Arabic script, including Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, and it holds a numerical value of four in the Abjad numeral system.

General Properties

Code Point U+062F
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Dal
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding د
HTML Hex Encoding د
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD8 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x062F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000062F
C/C++/Java Escape \u062f

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 Right Joining
Joining Group Dal
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