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FORMAT
U+0604 FORMAT

ARABIC SIGN SAMVAT

Zero-width format control character governing layout and script joining.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name ARABIC SIGN SAMVAT
Code Point U+0604
Decimal Value 1540
General Category Format (Cf) →
Unicode Block Arabic →
Script Arabic →
Unicode Version Unicode 6.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D8 84
UTF-16 Code Unit 0604
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000604
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 06 04 LE: 04 06
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 06 04 LE: 04 06 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ؄
HTML Hexadecimal ؄
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000604
JavaScript (ES6) \u0604
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0604
JSON Escape \u0604
Python \u0604
PHP "\u{604}"
Java "\u0604"
C / C++ "\u0604"
Rust '\u{604}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D8%84

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ANArabic Number
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Non-Printable Character Notice

Code point U+0604 represents a FORMAT (General Category Cf). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.

Names & Aliases

Official Name ARABIC SIGN SAMVAT

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0604

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