U+0A5E "ਫ਼" Gurmukhi Letter Fa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ਫ਼
U+0A5E "ਫ਼" Gurmukhi Letter Fa is a character in the Gurmukhi script used for writing the Punjabi language, representing the sound of a voiceless labiodental fricative, similar to the English 'f'. It is a distinct letter in the Gurmukhi alphabet, often classified as a consonant and primarily used in loanwords from other languages, such as Persian or English, to accurately represent foreign sounds not native to traditional Punjabi phonology. In Unicode, it occupies a specific code point within the Gurmukhi block (U+0A00 to U+0A7F) and contributes to the script's ability to transcribe a wide range of phonetic inputs while maintaining consistency in digital text encoding across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A5E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gurmukhi Letter Fa |
| Block | Gurmukhi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ਫ" U+0A2B Gurmukhi Letter Pha "਼" U+0A3C Gurmukhi Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ਫ਼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ਫ਼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA9 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A5E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a5e |