U+06FF "ۿ" Arabic Letter Heh with Inverted V Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06FF "ۿ" Arabic Letter Heh with Inverted V is a rarely used variant of the Arabic letter heh, distinguished by a v-shaped diacritic placed above its medial or final form. This character is part of the Arabic script block and is intended for specific orthographic needs in languages such as Kashmiri or other regional dialects, where it denotes a distinct phonetic value, often a voiced glottal fricative or a heavily aspirated sound, depending on the orthographic tradition. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation for scholarly texts and linguistic documentation that require precise phonetic transcription, though it is not commonly found in standard Arabic script usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06FF |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Heh with Inverted V |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06ff |