“ع” U+0639: Arabic Letter Ain

ℹ️ About

The Arabic Letter Ain (ع) represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative. It is a highly contextual character, changing significantly across its four script forms (isolated, initial, medial, and final). Technically, it is a non-mirrored “Other Letter” within the Arabic block, functioning as an AL (Arabic Letter) in bidirectional algorithms.

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