U+0643 "ك" Arabic Letter Kaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ك
U+0643 "ك" Arabic Letter Kaf is the twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing the velar stop sound /k/, similar to the "k" in English, but with distinct contextual forms depending on its position in a word: an isolated form (ك), an initial or medial form (كـ), and a final form (ـك). As a consonant, it is used in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic as well as in other languages that employ the Arabic script, such as Persian and Urdu, where it may have slight phonetic variations. The letter Kaf has historical origins in the Phoenician letter Kaph and shares a lineage with the Latin letter K and the Greek letter Kappa. In Arabic numerals, its numeric value in the abjad system is 20.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0643 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Kaf |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Caf |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ك |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ك |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0643 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000643 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0643 |