U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
U+062E 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+062E forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 67 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ḫāʾ, Khāʾ, or Xe (خ, transliterated as ḫ (DIN-31635), ḵ (Hans Wehr), kh (ALA-LC) or ẖ (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʼ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ, ġayn). It is also one of the ten letters the Persian alphabet added from the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being s̱e, ẕâl, zâd, ẓâ, ġayn, pe, che, že and gaf). It is based on the ḥāʾ ح. It represents the sound [x] or [χ] in Modern Standard Arabic. The pronunciation of خ is very similar to German, Irish, and Polish unpalatalised "ch", Russian х (Cyrillic Kha), Greek χ and Peninsular Spanish and Southern Cone "j". In name and shape, it is a variant of ḥāʾ. South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian , Ge'ez Ḫarm ኀ. Its numerical value is 600 (see Abjad numerals). In most European languages, it is mostly romanized as the digraph kh.
When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ח׳.
The most common transliteration in English is "kh", e.g. Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm), Sheikh (شيخ), Kazakhstan (كازاخستان), Maha Sarakham (ماها ساراخام).
Ḫāʾ is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1582 |
| UTF-8 | D8 AE |
| UTF-16 | 06 2E |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 2E |
| URL-Quoted | %D8%AE |
| HTML hex reference | خ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ø® |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | CE |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 31 84 36 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | CE |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 71 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57422 |
| Adobe Glyph List | khaharabic |
| digraph | x+ |
Related Characters
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Jeem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Hah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Meem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Noon with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Yeh with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Jeem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Sad with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Noon with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Yeh with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Alef Maksura Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Yeh Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Khah with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah Medial Form
- Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Medial Form
- Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Khah Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah with Jeem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Letter Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Khah Final Form
- Arabic Letter Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Letter Khah Medial Form
- Arabic Mathematical Khah
- Arabic Mathematical Initial Khah
- Arabic Mathematical Tailed Khah
- Arabic Mathematical Stretched Khah
- Arabic Mathematical Looped Khah
- Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Khah
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER KHAH | |
| ARABIC LETTER KHAA | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Hah | |
| Dual Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Khah | |
| R |