U+077E "ݾ" Arabic Letter Seen with Inverted V Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ݾ
U+077E "ݾ" Arabic Letter Seen with Inverted V is a specialized character from the Arabic script block used primarily for the representation of certain African languages, such as those in the Fulani or Hausa orthographies. This glyph modifies the standard Arabic letter Seen (س) by adding an inverted V-shaped diacritic above it, altering its phonetic value to denote a specific sound, often a palatalized or retroflex fricative that is not found in standard Arabic. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the accurate digital representation and preservation of these languages, enabling scholars and native speakers to write with precise orthographic distinction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+077E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Seen with Inverted V |
| Block | Arabic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ݾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ݾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDD 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x077E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000077E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u077e |