U+0635 "ص" Arabic Letter Sad Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ص

U+0635 "ص" Arabic Letter Sad is the eighteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing an emphatic voiceless alveolar fricative sound, similar to a strongly articulated "s" produced with the tongue retracted toward the palate. It is a solar letter, meaning it assimilates with the definite article "al" in pronunciation, and it appears in many common Arabic words such as "صبح" meaning morning and "صبر" meaning patience. In the Arabic script, Sad exhibits four contextual forms: an isolated form (ص), an initial form (صـ), a medial form (ـصـ), and a final form (ـص), allowing it to connect seamlessly within words. Beyond Arabic, this character is also used in other languages like Persian, Urdu, and Pashto, often with slight phonetic variations, making it an important and distinct glyph in the Unicode standard for representing Semitic and Islamic script traditions.

General Properties

Code Point U+0635
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Sad
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ص
HTML Hex Encoding ص
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD8 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0635
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000635
C/C++/Java Escape \u0635

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 Sad
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