U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh
U+0628 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arabic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0628 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 36 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁 , Hebrew bēt ב, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic bāʾ ب. Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or the voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩.
The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu, Hebrew: bayīṯ, Phoenician bēt etc.; ultimately all from Proto-Semitic *bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to, among others, the Greek beta (Β, β), Latin B (B, b) and Cyrillic Be (Б, б) and Ve (В, в).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1576 |
| UTF-8 | D8 A8 |
| UTF-16 | 06 28 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 28 |
| URL-Quoted | %D8%A8 |
| HTML hex reference | ب |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ب |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | C8 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | C8 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57416 |
| Adobe Glyph List | beharabic |
| digraph | b+ |
Related Characters
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Hah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Alef Maksura Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Yeh Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Reh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Zain Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Noon Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Hah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Heh Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Medial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Heh Medial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Hah with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Akbar Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Beh Final Form
- Arabic Letter Beh Initial Form
- Arabic Letter Beh Medial Form
- Arabic Mathematical Beh
- Arabic Mathematical Initial Beh
- Arabic Mathematical Stretched Beh
- Arabic Mathematical Looped Beh
- Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Beh
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER BEH | |
| ARABIC LETTER BAA | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Beh | |
| Dual Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| R |