U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
U+063A 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+063A forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 21 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Arabic letter غ (Arabic: غَيْنْ, ghayn or ġayn) is the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being thāʼ, khāʼ, dhāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ). It represents the sound /ɣ/ or /ʁ/. In name and shape, it is a variant of ʻayn (ع). Its numerical value is 1000 (see Abjad numerals). In the Persian language, it represents [ɣ]~[ɢ] and is the twenty-second letter in the new Persian alphabet.
Ghayn is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1594 |
| UTF-8 | D8 BA |
| UTF-16 | 06 3A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 3A |
| URL-Quoted | %D8%BA |
| HTML hex reference | غ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | غ |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | DA |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | DB |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57434 |
| Adobe Glyph List | ghainarabic |
| digraph | i+ |
Related Characters
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Jeem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Jeem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Alef Maksura Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Yeh Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Letter Ghain Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
- Arabic Letter Ghain Initial Form
- Arabic Letter Ghain Medial Form
- Arabic Mathematical Ghain
- Arabic Mathematical Initial Ghain
- Arabic Mathematical Tailed Ghain
- Arabic Mathematical Stretched Ghain
- Arabic Mathematical Looped Ghain
- Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Ghain
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER GHAIN | |
| — | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Ain | |
| Dual Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| R |