U+08B0 "ࢰ" Arabic Letter Gaf with Inverted Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08B0 "ࢰ" Arabic Letter Gaf with Inverted Stroke is a specific letter used in the Arabic script, primarily found in certain African languages such as the Berber languages of North Africa, where it represents a variant of the sound /g/ or /ɡ/ that differs from the standard Arabic letter kaf (ك) or gaf (گ). This character features a distinctive inverted stroke above the base letter form, setting it apart visually and phonetically from similar letters in the Arabic alphabet. It is encoded in the Unicode standard to support the accurate digital representation of these languages, ensuring proper rendering and text processing in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08B0 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Gaf with Inverted Stroke |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08b0 |