U+06BC "ڼ" Arabic Letter Noon with Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڼ
U+06BC "ڼ" Arabic Letter Noon with Ring is a modified form of the Arabic letter noon, distinguished by a small ring or circle placed above it. This character is primarily used in specific orthographies for languages such as Pashto, where it represents a retroflex nasal sound that is distinct from the standard Arabic noon. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for the precise digital representation of phonetic distinctions in these writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06BC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Noon with Ring |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06bc |