U+06D0 "ې" Arabic Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06D0 "ې" Arabic Letter E is a character used in the Arabic script, primarily representing the vowel sound "e" as in "bed." It is not part of the standard Arabic alphabet for Arabic itself but is employed in extended Arabic-based alphabets for languages such as Pashto and Uyghur. In Pashto, for example, it is the seventh letter and is referred to as "ye" or "pasta ye," distinguishing it from other y-like letters, and it is written in a distinctive final form that curves downward. This letter enables accurate transcription of specific vowel sounds not present in classical Arabic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06D0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter E |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Ya with Two Dots Vertical Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ې |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ې |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06d0 |