U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
U+0630 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+0630 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 6 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ḏāl (ذ, also be transcribed as dhāl) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḍād, ẓāʾ, 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, xe, zâd, ẓâ, ġayn, pe, che, že and gaf). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents /ð/. In name and shape, it is a variant of dāl (د). Its numerical value is 700 (see abjad numerals). The Arabic letter ذ is named ذَالْ ḏāl. It is written in several ways depending in its position in the word:
The South Arabian alphabet retained a symbol for ḏ, .
When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ד׳.
This sound is found in English, as in the words "those" or "then". In English the sound is sometimes rendered "dh" when transliterated from foreign languages, but when it occurs in English words it is one of the pronunciations occurring for the letters "th". Azerbaijan is the only country name in Arabic that uses this letter.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1584 |
| UTF-8 | D8 B0 |
| UTF-16 | 06 30 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 30 |
| URL-Quoted | %D8%B0 |
| HTML hex reference | ذ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ø° |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | A8 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | D0 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 31 84 38 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | D0 |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 74 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57424 |
| Adobe Glyph List | thalarabic |
| digraph | dk |
Related Characters
- Arabic Ligature Thal with Superscript Alef Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Thal Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Thal Final Form
- Arabic Mathematical Thal
- Arabic Mathematical Looped Thal
- Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Thal
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER THAL | |
| — | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Dal | |
| Right Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Thal | |
| R |