U+0630 "ذ" Arabic Letter Thal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ذ
U+0630 "ذ" Arabic Letter Thal is a distinct letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the voiced dental fricative sound equivalent to the "th" in the English word "that." It is the ninth letter in the standard Arabic script order and is used in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and other languages that employ the Arabic writing system. The character is written with a distinctive shape featuring a loop and a dot above it, and it follows the letter "د" (dal) in alphabetical sequence. In Unicode, it is classified under the Arabic block and is encoded for digital text representation, ensuring proper display and processing across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0630 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Thal |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ذ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ذ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0630 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000630 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0630 |