U+06CA "ۊ" Arabic Letter Waw with Two Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06CA "ۊ" Arabic Letter Waw with Two Dots Above is a variant of the standard Arabic letter waw (و), distinguished by the addition of two small dots placed above it. This modified character is used primarily in certain Arabic-based orthographies, notably in the Sorani Kurdish alphabet, where it represents the vowel sound /uː/ or /u/, as well as in some other Central Asian languages like Uyghur. It functions as a distinct grapheme in its respective writing system, enabling accurate phonetic representation that the base waw cannot achieve on its own, and it remains encoded in the Unicode standard under the Arabic block for digital text processing and cross-platform compatibility.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06CA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Waw with Two Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06ca |