U+0633 "س" Arabic Letter Seen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
س
U+0633 "س" Arabic Letter Seen is the fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing a voiceless alveolar fricative sound equivalent to the English "s". It is a solar letter, meaning it assimilates with the definite article "al" when preceding it in pronunciation, and its shape varies depending on its position within a word, appearing as isolated "س", initial "سـ", medial "ـسـ", or final "ـس". This letter has a numeric value of 60 in the abjad numeral system and serves as a fundamental component in countless Semitic root words, influencing meanings related to concepts like listening, travel, and peace.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0633 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Seen |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | س |
| HTML Hex Encoding | س |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0633 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000633 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0633 |