U+FEBF Arabic Letter Dad Initial Form
U+FEBF 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 an initial version of the glyph
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ḍād (ﺽ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In name and shape, it is a variant of ṣād. Its numerical value is 800 (see Abjad numerals).
In Modern Standard Arabic and many dialects, it represents an "emphatic" /d/, and it might be pronounced as a pharyngealized voiced alveolar stop , pharyngealized voiced dental stop [d̪ˤ] or velarized voiced dental stop [d̪ˠ]. The sound it represented at the time of the introduction of the Arabic alphabet is somewhat uncertain, likely a pharyngealized voiced alveolar lateral fricative or a similar affricated sound [d͡ɮˤ] or [dˡˤ]. One of the important aspects in some Tihama dialects is the preservation of the emphatic lateral fricative sound [ɮˤ], this sound is likely to be very similar to the original realization of ḍād, but this sound ([ɮˤ]) and [ðˤ] are used as two allophones for the two sounds ḍād ض and ẓāʾ ظ.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 65215 |
UTF-8 | EF BA BF |
UTF-16 | FE BF |
UTF-32 | 00 00 FE BF |
URL-Quoted | %EF%BA%BF |
HTML hex reference | ﺿ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ﺿ |
Adobe Glyph List | dadinitialarabic |
digraph | dd; |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
ARABIC LETTER DAD INITIAL FORM | |
GLYPH FOR INITIAL ARABIC DAD | |
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