U+06C4 "ۄ" Arabic Letter Waw with Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06C4 "ۄ" Arabic Letter Waw with Ring is a variant of the standard Arabic letter waw (و) distinguished by a small ring placed above it, which is used in specific orthographies to represent a distinct phonetic sound. It is most notably employed in the Kashmiri language, where it denotes a close central rounded vowel sound that differs from the standard waw's bilabial glide or long vowel. This character belongs to the Arabic script block and serves to accurately transcribe a phoneme not present in many other languages using the Arabic alphabet, thereby contributing to precise linguistic representation in written Kashmiri.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06C4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Waw with Ring |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06c4 |