ARABIC TATWEEL

Property Value
Codepoint U+0640
Literal Character ـ
Name ARABIC TATWEEL
Sketch
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Aliases kashida
Control Character no
Block Arabic
Subblock Control character
UTF-8 byte encoding d9 80
UTF-16 byte encoding 06 40 (big endian)
HTML Entity ـ
Perl string literal \x{640}
Comments
  • 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