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arabic letter sad final form

Arabic Letter Ṣād Final Form

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ﺺ is Arabic Ṣād (ص) in a final joining shape; it is the same letter, not a separate one. In ordinary Arabic text, type ص and let the text shaper choose the final form. This pre-shaped character is kept for compatibility, so normalization can change it back to ص.

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What ﺺ means

No. It is Ṣād in a joining form. Ṣād is a consonant commonly written as ṣ in Latin transliteration. In Arabic it contrasts with Sīn س. Persian loanwords containing Ṣād are generally pronounced with /s/, and some Egyptian and Maghrebi varieties merge its pronunciation with Sīn while keeping the spellings distinct.

Arabic writing developed through earlier Nabataean forms. The earliest dated inscriptions with a full repertoire described by scholars as Arabic appear in the late fifth century CE. Ṣād also has historical correspondences with Phoenician Ṣade and Hebrew Tsade. These connections belong to the history of the base letter ص, not to this pre-shaped character.

How do I type Arabic Ṣād in its final form?

Type ص and let the text shaper choose its form. Arabic letters change shape according to how they join their neighbors. A final form joins on the preceding side but not the following side, so it can appear inside a word before a letter that does not join onward. Fonts may draw the form differently.

ﺺ is a pre-shaped compatibility character retained for older encodings. Under NFKC normalization it becomes ص: the stored joining shape is removed, but the letter identity stays the same.

Technical and legacy: it records a joining shape, not a social tone.

For ordinary Arabic text, use ص.

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Why does ﺺ turn into ص?

It can. Compatibility normalization changes the pre-shaped form ﺺ to the base letter ص; the letter identity stays the same.

How to type or find ﺺ

Also called
Ṣād · Saad · Sād
Search it as
ṣad · ص · final saad
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType FEBA, then AltX to get ﺺ.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “arabic letter sad final form”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType feba, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ﺺ
CSS
\FEBA
Arabic keyboard
Choose ص; the text shaper supplies the contextual form.
Legacy data
Use ﺺ only when an older data format specifically requires this pre-shaped character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ﺺ
HTML hex
ﺺ
CSS content
content: "\FEBA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%BA%BA
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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