U+06AB "ګ" Arabic Letter Kaf with Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ګ
U+06AB "ګ" Arabic Letter Kaf with Ring is a variant of the Arabic letter kaf, distinguished by a small ring above its main body, which is used in specific orthographies such as Pashto, where it represents a voiced velar or uvular sound distinct from the standard Arabic kaf. This letter belongs to the Arabic script block and is encoded for digital text representation, enabling accurate transcription of languages that employ this modified character, particularly in writing systems where phonetic precision is required for distinguishing between similar consonant sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06AB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Kaf with Ring |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Caf with Ring |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ګ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ګ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06ab |