U+06B0 "ڰ" Arabic Letter Gaf with Ring Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ڰ

U+06B0 "ڰ" Arabic Letter Gaf with Ring is a variant of the Arabic letter gaf, distinguished by a small ring diacritic attached to its body, used primarily in certain Arabic-based orthographies for languages such as Urdu and some North African scripts to represent a specific g-like sound distinct from other gaf forms. It belongs to the Arabic block in Unicode and is encoded for digital text representation, enabling consistent typographic rendering in applications that support complex script shaping. This character is less common than other gaf variants but remains important for accurately preserving phonetic distinctions in written forms of languages like Kashmiri or historical Ottoman Turkish, where the ring modifies the default pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+06B0
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Gaf with Ring
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ڰ
HTML Hex Encoding ڰ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xDA 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x06B0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000006B0
C/C++/Java Escape \u06b0

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 Gaf
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