U+0638 "ظ" Arabic Letter Zah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0638 "ظ" Arabic Letter Zah is the twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet and represents the emphatic voiced dental fricative sound, similar to the "th" in "this" but produced with the tongue pressed firmly against the upper teeth. It is part of the Arabic script used in languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, where it appears in words like "ظلام" (darkness) and "ظريف" (pleasant). In the Unicode standard, it is categorized under the Arabic block and is encoded with a right-to-left directionality, reflecting its usage in scripts that flow from right to left.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0638 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Zah |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Dhah |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ظ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ظ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0638 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000638 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0638 |