ARABIC LETTER REH WITH RING·U+0693

ړ

Character Information

Code Point
U+0693
HEX
0693
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
DA 93
11011010 10010011
UTF16 (big Endian)
06 93
00000110 10010011
UTF16 (little Endian)
93 06
10010011 00000110
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 06 93
00000000 00000000 00000110 10010011
UTF32 (little Endian)
93 06 00 00
10010011 00000110 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ړ
URI Encoded
%DA%93

Description

U+0693 Arabic Letter Reh with Ring is a significant character in the Arabic script system. In its typical usage in digital text, it represents a consonant sound that corresponds to the English "r" or "l" sound depending on its position within a word and the following characters. This character holds an essential role in the Arabic language, which is spoken by millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa and serves as one of the liturgical languages for Islam. Its inclusion in digital text facilitates communication and preserves the linguistic integrity of written Arabic. The character also has a notable cultural significance as it forms part of the unique script that has been used consistently since the 7th century, making it an important aspect of Arabic calligraphy and typography.

How to type the ړ symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 1683 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character ړ has the Unicode code point U+0693. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 2 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0080 to 0x07ff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 11 bits within the final 16 bits and that it will have the format: 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+0693 to binary: 00000110 10010011. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11011010 10010011