U+FEBB Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form
U+FEBB was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arabic Presentation Forms-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is an initial version of the glyph Arabic Letter Sad. 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+FEBB forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Tsade (also spelled ṣade, ṣādē, ṣaddi, ṣad, tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic ṣād ص, Aramaic ṣāḏē 𐡑, Ge'ez ṣädäy ጸ, Hebrew ṣādī צ, Phoenician ṣādē 𐤑, and Syriac ṣāḏē ܨ. Its oldest phonetic value is debated, although there is a variety of pronunciations in different modern Semitic languages and their dialects. It represents the coalescence of three Proto-Semitic "emphatic consonants" in Canaanite. Arabic, which kept the phonemes separate, introduced variants of ṣād and ṭāʾ to express the three (see ḍād, ẓāʾ). In Aramaic, these emphatic consonants coalesced instead with ʿayin and ṭēt, respectively, thus Hebrew ereṣ ארץ (earth) is araʿ ארע in Aramaic.
The Phoenician letter is continued in the Greek san (Ϻ) and possibly sampi (Ϡ), and in Etruscan 𐌑 Ś. It may have inspired the form of the letter tse in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets.
The corresponding letter of the Ugaritic alphabet is 𐎕 ṣade.
The letter is named "tsadek" in Yiddish, and Hebrew speakers often give it a similar name as well. This name for the letter probably originated from a fast recitation of the alphabet (i.e., "tsadi, qoph" → "tsadiq, qoph"), influenced by the Hebrew word tzadik, meaning "righteous person".
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65211 |
| UTF-8 | EF BA BB |
| UTF-16 | FE BB |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FE BB |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BA%BB |
| HTML hex reference | ﺻ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ﺻ |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | D5 |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | D2 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 8E 35 |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 8C |
| Adobe Glyph List | sadinitialarabic |
| digraph | c+; |
Related Characters
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM | |
| GLYPH FOR INITIAL ARABIC SAD | |
| Arabic Presentation Forms-B | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| initial | |
| Arabic Letter Sad | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Sad | |
| No | |
| Arabic Letter Sad | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form | |
| R |