ظ

Arabic Letter Zah

U+0638
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ظ
Decimal ظ
Hex ظ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0638
Decimal
1592
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Block
Arabic
Script
Arabic
Bidi class
AL Arabic Letter (Right-to-Left)
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
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Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Arabic Letter Zah.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ظ
HTML Hex
ظ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
D8 B8
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
06 38
UTF-32 Hex
00000638
CSS Escape
\638
JavaScript Escape
\u0638
Python Escape
\u0638
URL Encoded
%D8%B8
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Arabic Letter Zah as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.