Overview
Zah is the emphatic counterpart of dhal in the Arabic abjad, articulated with the tongue retracted toward the pharynx, and U+0638 encodes it. Arabic script is cursive, so this single code point stands for four contextual glyph shapes — isolated, initial, medial, and final — which the font's shaping engine selects according to the neighbouring letters. Unicode encodes the letter once and delegates that selection to the renderer rather than assigning a code point per shape. Its general category is Lo (letter, other), and its bidirectional class is right-to-left, which governs how it orders against Latin text and digits in a mixed paragraph.
On this page
Encoding Table
| Format | Value | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| unicode | U+0638 | |
| decimal | 1592 | |
| htmldecimal | ظ | |
| htmlhex | ظ | |
| css | \0638 | |
| javascript | \u{638} | |
| python | \u0638 | |
| java | \u0638 | |
| go | \u0638 | |
| ruby | \u{638} | |
| rust | \u{638} | |
| ccpp | \u0638 | |
| urlencoded | %D8%B8 | |
| utf8bytes | d8 b8 | |
| utf16bebytes | 06 38 | |
| utf32bebytes | 00 00 06 38 |
How to Use
ظ
content: "\0638"
"\u{638}"
"\u0638"
Properties
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the ظ character (ARABIC LETTER ZAH)?
ظ (ARABIC LETTER ZAH) is the Unicode character U+0638.
What is the Unicode codepoint of ARABIC LETTER ZAH?
The ARABIC LETTER ZAH character (ظ) has codepoint U+0638.
How do I type or copy ARABIC LETTER ZAH?
Copy ظ directly, or use the HTML entity, UTF-8, and code encodings shown on this page.