ARABIC START OF RUB EL HIZB·U+06DE

۞

Character Information

Code Point
U+06DE
HEX
06DE
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
DB 9E
11011011 10011110
UTF16 (big Endian)
06 DE
00000110 11011110
UTF16 (little Endian)
DE 06
11011110 00000110
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 06 DE
00000000 00000000 00000110 11011110
UTF32 (little Endian)
DE 06 00 00
11011110 00000110 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
۞
URI Encoded
%DB%9E

Description

The Unicode character U+06DE represents "ARABIC START OF RUB EL HIZB" (لوحة ربع الصحراء). In digital text, this character serves as a marker used to initiate a line in the Arabic script. Specifically, it indicates the beginning of a new paragraph or section when using right-to-left writing systems. The Rub El Hizb is an essential aspect of Arabic typography and text layout, facilitating easier reading by breaking up long lines of text into shorter, manageable sections. This character plays a crucial role in maintaining the linguistic integrity and visual coherence of Arabic texts, which adhere to specific rules for line breaks and paragraph divisions that differ from those used in left-to-right writing systems.

How to type the ۞ symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 1758 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

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

    The character ۞ has the Unicode code point U+06DE. 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+06DE to binary: 00000110 11011110. 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:
    11011011 10011110