U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf
U+0642 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arabic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0642 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 23 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic qāf ق.
Its original sound value was a West Semitic emphatic stop, presumably [kʼ]. In Hebrew numerals, it has the numerical value of 100.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1602 |
| UTF-8 | D9 82 |
| UTF-16 | 06 42 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 42 |
| URL-Quoted | %D9%82 |
| HTML hex reference | ق |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ù‚ |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | E2 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | DE |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57442 |
| Adobe Glyph List | qafarabic |
| digraph | q+ |
Related Characters
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Hah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Alef Maksura Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Yeh Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Hah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem with Hah Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem with Hah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Qala Used As Koranic Stop Sign Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Qaf Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Qaf Final Form
- Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form
- Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
- Arabic Mathematical Qaf
- Arabic Mathematical Initial Qaf
- Arabic Mathematical Tailed Qaf
- Arabic Mathematical Stretched Qaf
- Arabic Mathematical Looped Qaf
- Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Qaf
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER QAF | |
| — | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Qaf | |
| Dual Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf | |
| R |