U+06C9 "ۉ" Arabic Letter Kirghiz Yu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06C9 "ۉ" Arabic Letter Kirghiz Yu is a distinct Arabic script letter used specifically in the Kyrgyz Arabic alphabet to represent the vowel sound /y/, similar to the "ü" in German or the "u" in French "tu". It is encoded in the Arabic block of Unicode and appears as a "waw" (و) with a small diacritical mark above it, differentiating it from standard Arabic characters to accommodate the phonetic needs of the Kyrgyz language. Historically, it was part of a modified Arabic orthography used for Kyrgyz before the Cyrillic script was adopted in the 1920s, and it remains important for scholarly and historical text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06C9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Kirghiz Yu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Waw with Inverted Small V |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06c9 |