ﺼ is the Unicode character ARABIC LETTER SAD MEDIAL FORM, code point U+FEBC (decimal 65212) in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ﺼ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes EF BA BC.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+FEBC |
| Decimal | 65212 |
| UTF-8 bytes | EF BA BC |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | FEBC |
| UTF-32 | 0000FEBC |
| HTML decimal | ﺼ |
| HTML hex | ﺼ |
| CSS | \FEBC |
| JavaScript | \uFEBC |
| JSON | \uFEBC |
| Python | \uFEBC |
| Python by name | \N{ARABIC LETTER SAD MEDIAL FORM} |
| Java, C# | \uFEBC |
| Rust, Swift | \u{FEBC} |
| Go, C, C++ | \uFEBC |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %EF%BA%BC |
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 SAD MEDIAL FORM |
| Code point | U+FEBC (decimal 65212) |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70–U+FEFF) |
| 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 |
Decomposition
ARABIC LETTER SAD MEDIAL FORM has a compatibility decomposition (medial) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.
Nearby in Arabic Presentation Forms-B
- ﺴ U+FEB4 Arabic Letter Seen Medial Form
- ﺵ U+FEB5 Arabic Letter Sheen Isolated Form
- ﺶ U+FEB6 Arabic Letter Sheen Final Form
- ﺷ U+FEB7 Arabic Letter Sheen Initial Form
- ﺸ U+FEB8 Arabic Letter Sheen Medial Form
- ﺹ U+FEB9 Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form
- ﺺ U+FEBA Arabic Letter Sad Final Form
- ﺻ U+FEBB Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form
- ﺽ U+FEBD Arabic Letter Dad Isolated Form
- ﺾ U+FEBE Arabic Letter Dad Final Form
- ﺿ U+FEBF Arabic Letter Dad Initial Form
- ﻀ U+FEC0 Arabic Letter Dad Medial Form
- ﻁ U+FEC1 Arabic Letter Tah Isolated Form
- ﻂ U+FEC2 Arabic Letter Tah Final Form
- ﻃ U+FEC3 Arabic Letter Tah Initial Form
- ﻄ U+FEC4 Arabic Letter Tah Medial Form
All 141 characters: Arabic Presentation Forms-B.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ﺼ?
- Use ﺼ (decimal) or ﺼ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+FEBC?
- EF BA BC (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %EF%BA%BC.
- How do I write U+FEBC in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \uFEBC. Python: \uFEBC.
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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