What ʿ means
It marks Arabic ʿayn in Latin transliteration.
The Arabic consonant ع is made deep in the throat; ʿ preserves it when Arabic words are written with Latin letters.
Persian scholarship uses it for ع; Hebrew scholarship uses it for ע. The surrounding language identifies the letter.
In Arabizi, informal Arabic written with Latin letters and numerals, writers use 3 for ʿayn; ʾ marks hamza, a brief closure in the throat.
A precise transliteration mark, not an apostrophe.
Keep ʿ and ʾ distinct: they represent different consonants.
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ʾModifier Letter Right Half Ring
ʕLatin Letter Pharyngeal Voiced Fricative
˓Modifier Letter Centred Left Half Ring
ʻModifier Letter Turned Comma
ʽModifier Letter Reversed Comma
ՙArmenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring
עHebrew Letter Ayin
عArabic Letter Ain
ޢThaana Letter Ainu
ꜤLatin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain
𐔶Caucasian Albanian Letter Eyn
𐕠Caucasian Albanian Letter Cayn
𐺗Yezidi Letter Eyn
𞸏Arabic Mathematical Ain𞸯Arabic Mathematical Initial Ain
𞹏Arabic Mathematical Tailed Ain𞹯Arabic Mathematical Stretched Ain𞺏Arabic Mathematical Looped Ain𞺯Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Ain
ˀModifier Letter Glottal Stop
^Circumflex Accent
`Grave Accent
¨Diaeresis
¯Macron
´Acute AccentHow to type or find ʿ
- Search it as
- ayn symbol · ain symbol · ayin transliteration · Arabic ayn · Arabizi 3 · ʿayn mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\02BFhow to type ʿ
Linux: press CtrlShiftU, type 02BF, then press Enter or Space.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ʿ
HTML hex
ʿ
CSS content
content: "\02BF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%CA%BF
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.