ھ is the Unicode character ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE, code point U+06BE (decimal 1726) in the Arabic block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ھ, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes DA BE.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+06BE |
| Decimal | 1726 |
| UTF-8 bytes | DA BE |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 06BE |
| UTF-32 | 000006BE |
| HTML decimal | ھ |
| HTML hex | ھ |
| CSS | \6BE |
| JavaScript | \u06BE |
| JSON | \u06BE |
| Python | \u06BE |
| Python by name | \N{ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE} |
| Java, C# | \u06BE |
| Rust, Swift | \u{6BE} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u06BE |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %DA%BE |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE |
| Code point | U+06BE (decimal 1726) |
| Block | Arabic (U+0600–U+06FF) |
| General category | Lo: Other letter |
| Script | Arabic |
| Bidirectional class | AL: Right-to-left (Arabic) |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Arabic
- ڶ U+06B6 Arabic Letter Lam With Dot Above
- ڷ U+06B7 Arabic Letter Lam With Three Dots Above
- ڸ U+06B8 Arabic Letter Lam With Three Dots Below
- ڹ U+06B9 Arabic Letter Noon With Dot Below
- ں U+06BA Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna
- ڻ U+06BB Arabic Letter Rnoon
- ڼ U+06BC Arabic Letter Noon With Ring
- ڽ U+06BD Arabic Letter Noon With Three Dots Above
- ڿ U+06BF Arabic Letter Tcheh With Dot Above
- ۀ U+06C0 Arabic Letter Heh With Yeh Above
- ہ U+06C1 Arabic Letter Heh Goal
- ۂ U+06C2 Arabic Letter Heh Goal With Hamza Above
- ۃ U+06C3 Arabic Letter Teh Marbuta Goal
- ۄ U+06C4 Arabic Letter Waw With Ring
- ۅ U+06C5 Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe
- ۆ U+06C6 Arabic Letter Oe
All 256 characters: Arabic.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ھ?
- Use ھ (decimal) or ھ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+06BE?
- DA BE (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %DA%BE.
- How do I write U+06BE in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u06BE. Python: \u06BE.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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