U+063C "ؼ" Arabic Letter Keheh with Three Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+063C "ؼ" Arabic Letter Keheh with Three Dots Below is a variant of the Arabic letter "keheh" (similar to a kaf with a small head), modified by adding three dots beneath it. This character is used in specific extended Arabic scripts, particularly in certain African languages such as the Adamaua Fulfulde and other West African orthographies, where it represents a voiced velar or uvular plosive sound not found in standard Arabic. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and serves to accommodate phonetic distinctions in non-Arabic languages that use the Arabic script, ensuring proper transliteration and writing of indigenous sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+063C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Keheh with Three Dots Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x063C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000063C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u063c |