- Codepoint
U+0640- Literal Character
- ـ
- Name
- ARABIC TATWEEL
- Sketch
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- Aliases
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kashida
- Control Character
- no
- Block
- Arabic
- Subblock
- Based on ISO 8859-6
- UTF-8 byte encoding
d9 80- UTF-16 byte encoding
06 40(big endian)- HTML Entity
ـ- Perl string literal
\x{640}- Comments
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- inserted to stretch characters or to carry tashkil with no base letter
- also used with Adlam, Hanifi Rohingya, Mandaic, Manichaean, Psalter Pahlavi, Sogdian, and Syriac
- Used In
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