U+0697 "ڗ" Arabic Letter Reh with Two Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0697 "ڗ" Arabic Letter Reh with Two Dots Above is a glyph used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a variant of the letter "Reh" (ر) distinguished by two dots placed above the character. This letter is primarily employed in certain non-standard or historical orthographies, such as in some African languages like Hausa or in archaic Persian texts, where it may denote a different phonetic value, often a voiced retroflex or dental flap sound, distinct from the standard Arabic "ra". It is not a common character in mainstream Modern Standard Arabic or standard Persian, but it appears in specialized linguistic contexts, manuscripts, and digital representations of specific dialects and transliteration systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0697 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Reh with Two Dots Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Ra with Two Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0697 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000697 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0697 |