U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain
U+0639 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+0639 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 28 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).
The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) or a similarly articulated consonant. In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether (thus, in the revived Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely in part due to European influence).
The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letters O, O and O.
The Arabic character is the origin of the Latin-script letter Ƹ.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1593 |
| UTF-8 | D8 B9 |
| UTF-16 | 06 39 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 39 |
| URL-Quoted | %D8%B9 |
| HTML hex reference | ع |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ع |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | D9 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | DA |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57433 |
| Adobe Glyph List | ainarabic |
| digraph | e+ |
Related Characters
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Alef Maksura Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Yeh Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Salam Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Alayhe Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
- Arabic Letter Ain Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Ain Final Form
- Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form
- Arabic Letter Ain Medial Form
- Arabic Mathematical Ain
- Arabic Mathematical Initial Ain
- Arabic Mathematical Tailed Ain
- Arabic Mathematical Stretched Ain
- Arabic Mathematical Looped Ain
- Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Ain
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER AIN | |
| — | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Ain | |
| Dual Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Ain | |
| R |