U+08B5 "ࢵ" Arabic Letter Qaf with Dot Below and No Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࢵ
U+08B5 "ࢵ" Arabic Letter Qaf with Dot Below and No Dots Above is a distinct Arabic letter used in certain African languages and Arabic dialects, primarily for representing a voiced uvular or velar consonant sound that differs from the standard Arabic qāf. This character is a variant of the base letter qaf, modified with a single dot placed below the letterform and explicitly lacking the two dots typically found above the standard qaf in Arabic script. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and supports the orthographic needs of languages such as Fulfulde, Hausa, and various Berber languages, where it helps differentiate phonetic nuances in writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08B5 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Qaf with Dot Below and No Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08b5 |