U+06C0 "ۀ" Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06C0 "ۀ" Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above is a composite glyph used in the Arabic script to represent a specific phonetic variant of the letter "heh," primarily found in the writing of languages such as Persian and Kurdish. This character combines the base form of the Arabic letter "heh" with a small superscript "yeh" diacritic above it, indicating a distinct sound or orthographic convention, often related to the izafet construction or vowel marking. It appears in Unicode as a precomposed form for compatibility and ease of use in digital text, and its inclusion supports accurate representation of certain linguistic features that are not covered by the base letter alone.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06C0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Hamzah on Ha |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ە" U+06D5 Arabic Letter Ae "ٔ" U+0654 Arabic Hamza Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06c0 |