U+06A5 "ڥ" Arabic Letter Feh with Three Dots Below Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ڥ

U+06A5 "ڥ" Arabic Letter Feh with Three Dots Below is a modified letter used in specific Arabic-based orthographies, primarily for representing a voiceless labiodental fricative sound, like the English "f" in "fish," but with a distinct phonetic nuance in languages such as Berber or certain African Ajami scripts where it may denote a slightly different articulation or a borrowed sound not found in standard Arabic. Its typographic form adapts the base Arabic letter feh, which originally represents a "f" sound, by adding three dots underneath the letter, visually distinguishing it from other feh variants and aligning with other dotted letter conventions in the Arabic script. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to ensure proper digital representation and text processing for languages that require this specific letter, primarily found in regions like North Africa or West Africa where modified Arabic letters are used for local language writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+06A5
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Feh with Three Dots Below
Unicode 1.0 Name Arabic Letter Fa with Three Dots Below
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ڥ
HTML Hex Encoding ڥ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xDA 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x06A5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000006A5
C/C++/Java Escape \u06a5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Joining Group Feh
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter