Joining Group - African Qaf

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African Qaf is a joining group that defines how the Arabic letter Qaf, when used in African languages like Hausa or Fulani, connects to adjacent letters in cursive script rendering. Specifically, it represents a variant of the Arabic letter Qaf that has a distinct visual form, often with an additional dot or stroke, and it follows the same right-to-left joining rules as standard Arabic letters, meaning it can take isolated, initial, medial, and final forms depending on its position in a word. This group ensures that the character connects properly to neighboring letters, preserving the correct shaped ligatures and fluid text flow in languages that use this adapted script, thereby distinguishing it from the standard Qaf group used in other regions.

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U+08BC
Arabic Letter African Qaf
U+08C4
Arabic Letter African Qaf with Three Dots Above