U+06EF "ۯ" Arabic Letter Reh with Inverted V Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06EF "ۯ" Arabic Letter Reh with Inverted V is a rare letter used in Arabic script extensions, specifically for the Khowar language spoken in parts of northern Pakistan. This character represents a retroflex sound that is distinct from the standard Arabic "reh" (ر), and its name derives from the inverted V-shaped diacritic placed above the base letter to indicate this unique phonetic quality. It is part of the Arabic Extended-A block in Unicode, supporting the orthography of minority languages that require additional characters beyond the standard Arabic alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06EF |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Reh with Inverted V |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06ef |