U+06CF "ۏ" Arabic Letter Waw with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06CF "ۏ" Arabic Letter Waw with Dot Above is a variant of the standard Arabic letter waw, distinguished by a single dot placed above it, and is used primarily in the writing of the Malay language with the Jawi script as well as in certain African languages such as Fulfulde and Hausa. This character represents a distinct phonetic value, typically indicating a voiced labiodental fricative sound similar to the English "v" or a bilabial approximant, depending on the specific linguistic context. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates accurate digital representation and text processing for languages that require this modified letter, ensuring proper orthographic distinction from the plain waw and other dotted variants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06CF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Waw with Dot Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06CF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06cf |