U+06AE "ڮ" Arabic Letter Kaf with Three Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڮ
U+06AE "ڮ" Arabic Letter Kaf with Three Dots Below is a distinctive glyph used in the Arabic script primarily to represent a velar or uvular stop sound in certain languages, most notably in the Arabic dialects of North Africa and in languages like Berber and some Turkic languages when written in a Perso-Arabic script. It is formed by adding three dots beneath the standard Arabic letter kaf (ك), which distinguishes it from other kaf variants and allows for the precise transliteration of non-Arabic phonemes. This character is part of the Arabic block in Unicode and is utilized in orthographies where a distinct sound, often similar to a hard "g" or a uvular "q", needs to be represented separately from the plain kaf.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06AE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Kaf with Three Dots Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Caf with Three Dots Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06ae |