U+06A7 "ڧ" Arabic Letter Qaf with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڧ
U+06A7 "ڧ" Arabic Letter Qaf with Dot Above is a variant form of the Arabic letter qaf, distinguished by a single dot placed above the letter's base rather than the standard two dots. This character is primarily used in the writing systems of certain languages, such as Kurdish (especially in the Sorani dialect) and historically in some Turkic languages, to represent a voiced uvular or velar sound. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for accurate digital representation and text processing of these languages, ensuring that the specific phonetic distinction indicated by the dot above is preserved in modern electronic communications and documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06A7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Qaf with Dot Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06a7 |