U+06C5 "ۅ" Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06C5 "ۅ" Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe is a script character used in the Arabic alphabet specifically for the Kyrgyz language, where it represents a rounded front vowel sound, similar to the German "ö" or the French "eu." It is also known as the "Kyrgyz Oe" and is part of the Arabic Extended-A block in Unicode, functioning as a distinct letter in the Kyrgyz writing system to accurately transcribe a phoneme not present in standard Arabic. This character is visually distinctive with a small loop or dot above the main letter form, and it is primarily employed in texts from Central Asia, particularly in Kyrgyzstan, to write native words and borrowed terms requiring this specific vowel sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06C5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Waw with Bar |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06c5 |