ع

Arabic Letter Ain

U+0639
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ع
Decimal ع
Hex ع

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+0639
Decimal
1593
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 Ain.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ع
HTML Hex
ع
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
D8 B9
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
06 39
UTF-32 Hex
00000639
CSS Escape
\639
JavaScript Escape
\u0639
Python Escape
\u0639
URL Encoded
%D8%B9
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