U+FB4D "כֿ" Hebrew Letter Kaf with Rafe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
כֿ
U+FB4D "כֿ" Hebrew Letter Kaf with Rafe is a precomposed form of the Hebrew letter Kaf combined with a rafe diacritic, a small horizontal line placed above the letter. This character is part of the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, reflecting its historical use in Judeo-Arabic and other Hebrew texts to mark a soft or fricative pronunciation of the Kaf, typically indicating it is not aspirated. It is distinct from the standard Hebrew letter Kaf and is primarily used in specialized linguistic, liturgical, or typographic contexts to represent a phonetic variant accurately.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB4D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Kaf with Rafe |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "כ" U+05DB Hebrew Letter Kaf "ֿ" U+05BF Hebrew Point Rafe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | כֿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | כֿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB4D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB4D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb4d |