U+063F "ؿ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ؿ
U+063F "ؿ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Three Dots Above is a rare and specialized letter used historically in the Arabic script for certain Persian and Ottoman Turkish texts, particularly to represent a variant form of the letter "yeh" with three dots placed above it to distinguish a specific phonetic value. It is a non‑standard character that appears in some early manuscripts and printed works but is not commonly used in modern Persian or Arabic writing, where other characters like "ی" or "ي" are preferred. The character belongs to the Arabic block in Unicode and is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and paleography studying textual variations in Persian and Ottoman orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+063F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Three Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x063F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000063F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u063f |