ظ
U+0638

ARABIC LETTER ZAH

Lo — Other Letter
Arabic
Arabic
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
1592

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent ARABIC LETTER ZAH in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 D8 B8 216 184 2
UTF-16 LE 38 06 56 6 2
UTF-16 BE 06 38 6 56 2
UTF-32 LE 38 06 00 00 56 6 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 06 38 0 0 6 56 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
ظ
ظ
\638
\u0638
%D8%B8
\u0638
1592

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
D8
·
Byte 2
1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
B8
UTF-8: D8 B8 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+0638

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
AL — Arabic Letter

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