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U+0638 · ARABIC LETTER ZAH

Arabic Letter Zah

  • CodepointU+0638
  • NameARABIC LETTER ZAH
  • Decimal1592
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptArabic
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classAL — Arabic Letter
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0638 (ظ) is ARABIC LETTER ZAH, a letter in the Arabic block. It belongs to the Arabic script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a strong right-to-left character (bidirectional class AL), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

How to type ظ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D8 B82 bytes
UTF-1606381 code unit
UTF-32000006384 bytes
HTML decimalظ
HTML hexظ
CSS\638in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0638
JSON\u0638
Python\u0638
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER ZAH}by name
Java / C#\u0638
C / C++\u0638universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{638}
Go\u0638
Ruby\u0638
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1592)
URL-encoded%D8%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+FEC5ﻅArabic Letter Zah Isolated Form U+FEC6ﻆArabic Letter Zah Final Form U+FEC7ﻇArabic Letter Zah Initial Form U+FEC8ﻈArabic Letter Zah Medial Form U+1EE1A𞸚Arabic Mathematical Zah U+1EE7A𞹺Arabic Mathematical Stretched Zah U+1EE9A𞺚Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah U+1EEBA𞺺Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Zah
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Characters built on ظ

U+FC28ﰨArabic Ligature Zah with Meem Isolated Form U+FCB9ﲹArabic Ligature Zah with Meem Initial Form U+FD3BﴻArabic Ligature Zah with Meem Medial Form U+FEC5ﻅArabic Letter Zah Isolated Form U+FEC6ﻆArabic Letter Zah Final Form U+FEC7ﻇArabic Letter Zah Initial Form U+FEC8ﻈArabic Letter Zah Medial Form U+1EE1A𞸚Arabic Mathematical Zah U+1EE7A𞹺Arabic Mathematical Stretched Zah U+1EE9A𞺚Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah U+1EEBA𞺺Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Zah
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+0632زArabic Letter Zain U+0633سArabic Letter Seen U+0634شArabic Letter Sheen U+0635صArabic Letter Sad U+0636ضArabic Letter Dad U+0637طArabic Letter Tah U+0639عArabic Letter Ain U+063AغArabic Letter Ghain U+063BػArabic Letter Keheh with Two Dots Above U+063CؼArabic Letter Keheh with Three Dots Below U+063DؽArabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Inverted V U+063EؾArabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Two Dots Above