U+0696 "ږ" Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below and Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0696 "ږ" Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below and Dot Above is a variant of the Arabic letter reh, distinguished by the addition of one dot above and one dot below the base character. It is primarily used in the Pashto language, where it represents a retroflex sound that resembles a voiced retroflex fricative or approximant, depending on the dialect. This letter is also found in other languages such as Uyghur and some historical Arabic-based scripts for writing South Asian languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for these linguistic communities.
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Arabic Letter Reh with Two Dots Above
General Properties
Code Point
U+0696
Name
Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below and Dot Above
Unicode 1.0 Name
Arabic Letter Ra with Dot Below and Dot Above
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ږ
HTML Hex Encoding
ږ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDA 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0696
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000696
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0696
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic