U+0685 "څ" Arabic Letter Hah with Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0685 "څ" Arabic Letter Hah with Three Dots Above is a distinct letter used in several Arabic-based scripts, most notably in Pashto, where it represents a voiceless alveolar affricate sound similar to the "ts" in "cats." Its visual form is derived from the standard Arabic letter hah (ح) but with three dots arranged in a triangular pattern above its body. While primarily employed in Pashto orthography for native and loanwords, it also appears in other languages like Khowar and some historical or regional adaptations of Arabic script, though it is not part of the standard Arabic alphabet used for the Arabic language itself. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard since version 1.1 and falls within the Arabic block, serving as a crucial element for accurately representing the phonological distinctions of the languages that utilize it.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
څ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
څ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xDA 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0685 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000685 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0685 |
Unicode Properties