U+10EC4 "" Arabic Letter Kaf with Two Dots Vertically Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10EC4 "" Arabic Letter Kaf with Two Dots Vertically Below is a specific glyph used in the Arabic script, primarily for writing certain historical or regional languages, such as varieties of Berber or other languages that require additional diacritical marks beyond standard Arabic. This character represents a modified form of the Arabic letter Kaf (ك), distinguished by two dots placed directly beneath it in a vertical alignment, which alters its phonetic value to denote a distinct sound, often a voiced velar or uvular fricative. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block in Unicode, a range that encodes specialized or rare Arabic script characters to support accurate digital representation of diverse linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10EC4 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Kaf with Two Dots Vertically Below |
| Block | Arabic Extended-C |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐻄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐻄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDEC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010EC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udec4 |