U+06AB "ګ" Arabic Letter Kaf with Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+06AB "ګ" Arabic Letter Kaf with Ring is a variant of the Arabic letter kaf, distinguished by a small ring above its main body, which is used in specific orthographies such as Pashto, where it represents a voiced velar or uvular sound distinct from the standard Arabic kaf. This letter belongs to the Arabic script block and is encoded for digital text representation, enabling accurate transcription of languages that employ this modified character, particularly in writing systems where phonetic precision is required for distinguishing between similar consonant sounds.
General Properties
Code Point
U+06AB
Name
Arabic Letter Kaf with Ring
Unicode 1.0 Name
Arabic Letter Caf with Ring
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ګ
HTML Hex Encoding
ګ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDA 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x06AB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000006AB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u06ab
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic