U+0681 "ځ" Arabic Letter Hah with Hamza Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ځ
U+0681 "ځ" Arabic Letter Hah with Hamza Above is a letter used in the Pashto alphabet, representing a voiced glottal or pharyngealized sound that is distinct from the standard Arabic letter Hah. It is formed by combining a base hah shape with a hamza diacritic placed above it, which modifies its pronunciation to create a unique phoneme not found in many other Arabic script languages. This character is essential for correctly writing and reading Pashto words, particularly in the context of native vocabulary and certain loanwords, and it appears in positions within words requiring careful transcription to avoid confusion with similar letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0681 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Hah with Hamza Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Hamzah on Haa |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ځ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ځ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0681 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000681 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0681 |