U+063F "ؿ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Three Dots Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ؿ
Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+063F "ؿ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Three Dots Above is a rare and specialized letter used historically in the Arabic script for certain Persian and Ottoman Turkish texts, particularly to represent a variant form of the letter "yeh" with three dots placed above it to distinguish a specific phonetic value. It is a non‑standard character that appears in some early manuscripts and printed works but is not commonly used in modern Persian or Arabic writing, where other characters like "ی" or "ي" are preferred. The character belongs to the Arabic block in Unicode and is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and paleography studying textual variations in Persian and Ottoman orthography.

General Properties

Code Point
U+063F
Name
Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh with Three Dots Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ؿ
HTML Hex Encoding
ؿ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD8 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x063F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000063F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u063f