U+06CA "ۊ" Arabic Letter Waw with Two Dots Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+06CA "ۊ" Arabic Letter Waw with Two Dots Above is a variant of the standard Arabic letter waw (و), distinguished by the addition of two small dots placed above it. This modified character is used primarily in certain Arabic-based orthographies, notably in the Sorani Kurdish alphabet, where it represents the vowel sound /uː/ or /u/, as well as in some other Central Asian languages like Uyghur. It functions as a distinct grapheme in its respective writing system, enabling accurate phonetic representation that the base waw cannot achieve on its own, and it remains encoded in the Unicode standard under the Arabic block for digital text processing and cross-platform compatibility.

General Properties

Code Point
U+06CA
Name
Arabic Letter Waw with Two Dots Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ۊ
HTML Hex Encoding
ۊ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDB 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x06CA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000006CA
C/C++/Java Escape
\u06ca