U+06FF "ۿ" Arabic Letter Heh with Inverted V Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+06FF "ۿ" Arabic Letter Heh with Inverted V is a rarely used variant of the Arabic letter heh, distinguished by a v-shaped diacritic placed above its medial or final form. This character is part of the Arabic script block and is intended for specific orthographic needs in languages such as Kashmiri or other regional dialects, where it denotes a distinct phonetic value, often a voiced glottal fricative or a heavily aspirated sound, depending on the orthographic tradition. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation for scholarly texts and linguistic documentation that require precise phonetic transcription, though it is not commonly found in standard Arabic script usage.

General Properties

Code Point
U+06FF
Name
Arabic Letter Heh with Inverted V

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ۿ
HTML Hex Encoding
ۿ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDB 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x06FF
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000006FF
C/C++/Java Escape
\u06ff