U+063E "ؾ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Two Dots Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+063E "ؾ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Two Dots Above is a character used primarily in specific historical or regional orthographies of the Arabic script, particularly within certain contexts of the Persian (Farsi) language and related languages, where it represents a variant of the letter "yeh" distinguished by two dots placed above it. This character is part of the Arabic block in Unicode and is employed in select texts to denote a particular phonetic nuance or etymological distinction, though it is not a standard or common letter in modern Persian writing, which typically uses the basic Farsi Yeh (U+06CC). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper representation and digital preservation for scholarly works, historical manuscripts, or specialized linguistic studies that require this precise glyph.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ؾ
HTML Hex Encoding ؾ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD8 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x063E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000063E
C/C++/Java Escape \u063e

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 Farsi Yeh
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