U+08C2 "ࣂ" Arabic Letter Keheh with Small V Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08C2 "ࣂ" Arabic Letter Keheh with Small V is a character used in the extended Arabic script, specifically within certain languages of the Brahmi family, such as Sindhi or Saraiki, where it represents a distinctive consonant sound. This letter combines the base form of "Keheh," which resembles a Kaf with an additional stroke, with a small V-shaped diacritic placed above it to indicate a specific phonetic nuance, often a voiced or implosive sound not found in Standard Arabic. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text can accurately represent the orthography of these regional languages, preserving their linguistic heritage and enabling proper rendering in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08C2 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Keheh with Small V |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࣂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࣂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA3 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08c2 |