U+0639 "ع" Arabic Letter Ain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ع
U+0639 "ع" Arabic Letter Ain is a consonant in the Arabic alphabet that represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, produced by constricting the throat. It is the eighteenth letter of the standard Arabic script and holds significant importance in the language, appearing in many common words and the divine name "Allah." In Arabic numerals, the letter has a numerical value of seventy in the Abjad system of assigning numbers to letters. The glyph itself resembles a rounded loop with a tail, and it is used in various languages that adopt the Arabic script, such as Persian, Urdu, and Pashto, where it may carry slightly different pronunciations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0639 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Ain |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ع |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ع |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0639 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000639 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0639 |