U+0696 "ږ" Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below and Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0696 "ږ" Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below and Dot Above is a variant of the Arabic letter reh, distinguished by the addition of one dot above and one dot below the base character. It is primarily used in the Pashto language, where it represents a retroflex sound that resembles a voiced retroflex fricative or approximant, depending on the dialect. This letter is also found in other languages such as Uyghur and some historical Arabic-based scripts for writing South Asian languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for these linguistic communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0696 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below and Dot Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Ra with Dot Below and Dot Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ږ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ږ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0696 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000696 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0696 |