U+06B4 "ڴ" Arabic Letter Gaf with Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڴ
U+06B4 "ڴ" Arabic Letter Gaf with Three Dots Above is a letter used in certain extended Arabic scripts, primarily in the writing of languages such as Kazakh, where it represents a voiced uvular plosive or a similar guttural sound not found in standard Arabic. This character is a variant of the basic Arabic letter "گ" (gaf), distinguished by the addition of three dots positioned above the letter's base form. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Arabic block to support the orthographic needs of specific Central Asian and other languages that require this precise phonetic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06B4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Gaf with Three Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06b4 |