U+063B "ػ" Arabic Letter Keheh with Two Dots Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+063B "ػ" Arabic Letter Keheh with Two Dots Above is a rarely used Arabic script character that represents a variant of the Arabic letter keheh (which is itself a form of kaf) with two dots placed above it, historically employed in certain orthographies for the representation of sounds found in languages like Hausa, particularly for marking a palatal or fronted velar stop distinct from the standard kaf. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and supports the transcription of specific phonetic distinctions in languages that extend the Arabic alphabet beyond its classical letter set. It should not be confused with more common dotted kaf forms, as its unique diacritical marking assigns it a precise role in specialized writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+063B
Version Added 5.1
Name Arabic Letter Keheh with Two Dots Above
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ػ
HTML Hex Encoding ػ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD8 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x063B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000063B
C/C++/Java Escape \u063b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Joining Group Gaf
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter