U+095E "फ़" Devanagari Letter Fa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
फ़
U+095E "फ़" Devanagari Letter Fa is a distinct character in the Devanagari script, used primarily to represent the voiceless labiodental fricative sound 'f', which is not native to classical Sanskrit but appears in modern Hindi, Nepali, and other languages written in Devanagari, typically for loanwords from Persian, Arabic, and English. It is a modified form of the letter "फ" (pha), distinguished by a nuqta (a subscript dot), and appears in the Unicode Standard's Devanagari block as part of the broader encoding for South Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+095E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Fa |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "फ" U+092B Devanagari Letter Pha "़" U+093C Devanagari Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | फ़ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | फ़ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x095E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000095E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u095e |