U+0693 "ړ" Arabic Letter Reh with Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0693 "ړ" Arabic Letter Reh with Ring is a variant of the Arabic letter "reh" (ر) distinguished by a small ring attached to its upper left or right side, and it is used primarily in Pashto and some other languages of the region to represent a retroflex or emphatic "r" sound, often transcribed as "ṛ" or "ŗ" in romanization. This letter extends the standard Arabic alphabet to accommodate phonetic distinctions not present in Arabic itself, functioning as a unique grapheme within the Pashto script for writing words like "ړوند" (meaning blind or dull). Its encoding in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms, supporting the accurate rendering of texts in languages that rely on this specific character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0693 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Reh with Ring |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Ra with Ring |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ړ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ړ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0693 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000693 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0693 |