U+06BE "ھ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+06BE "ھ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee is a variant of the Arabic letter "heh" that is primarily used in the Urdu, Sindhi, and several other South Asian languages written in the Perso-Arabic script. It represents a specific aspirated sound, often transcribed as "h", but with a distinct breathy or voiceless quality that differs from the standard Arabic "heh" (ه). This character is visually distinguished by a small "two-eyed" or double-dot-like marking above its main body, which gives it its name "Doachashmee" meaning "two-eyed" in Persian. It plays a crucial role in accurately rendering the phonetics of languages like Urdu, where it frequently appears in loanwords or native terms, and is encoded in Unicode to support digital text processing and display for these linguistic communities.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ھ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ھ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xDA 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x06BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000006BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u06be |
Unicode Properties