U+066E "ٮ" Arabic Letter Dotless Beh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+066E "ٮ" Arabic Letter Dotless Beh is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter Beh, notable for its complete lack of the single dot that usually distinguishes Beh from other similar letters. This character is used in specific historical Arabic texts, Quranic manuscripts, and certain educational or calligraphic contexts where the dotting is omitted, either due to ancient orthographic conventions or for stylistic simplicity. It functions as a placeholder or base form that can represent several different dotted letters depending on context, and it is considered a distinct Unicode character to allow for precise preservation and display of these unvocalized or undotted writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+066E |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Dotless Beh |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ٮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ٮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x066E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000066E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u066e |