U+FE9C Arabic Letter Theh Medial Form
U+FE9C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is a medial version of the glyph
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ṯāʾ (ث) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents the voiceless dental fricative [θ], also found in English as the "th" in words such as "thank" and "thin". In Persian, Urdu, and Kurdish it is pronounced as s as in "sister" in English.
In name and shape, it is a variant of tāʾ (ت). Its numerical value is 500 (see Abjad numerals).
The Arabic letter ث is named ثَاءْ ṯāʾ. It is written in several ways depending in its position in the word:
In contemporary spoken Arabic, pronunciation of ṯāʾ as [θ] is found in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraqi, and Tunisian and other dialects and in highly educated pronunciations of Modern Standard and Classical Arabic. Pronunciation of the letter varies between and within the various varieties of Arabic: while it is consistently pronounced as the voiceless dental plosive [t] in Maghrebi Arabic (except Tunisian and eastern Libyan), on the other hand in the Arabic varieties of the Mashriq (in the broad sense, including Egyptian, Sudanese and Levantine) and Hejazi Arabic, it is pronounced as the sibilant voiceless alveolar fricative [s] in loanwords from Literary Arabic.
When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ת׳.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 65180 |
UTF-8 | EF BA 9C |
UTF-16 | FE 9C |
UTF-32 | 00 00 FE 9C |
URL-Quoted | %EF%BA%9C |
HTML hex reference | ﺜ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ﺜ |
Adobe Glyph List | thehmedialarabic |
digraph | tk. |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
ARABIC LETTER THEH MEDIAL FORM | |
GLYPH FOR MEDIAL ARABIC THAA | |
Arabic Presentation Forms-B | |
Other Letter | |
Arabic | |
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Not Reordered | |
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Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
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