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Glyph for U+0643
Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf

U+0643 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0600 to U+06FF Arabic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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+0643 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 43 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Kaph (also spelled kaf) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic kāf ك‎, Aramaic kāp 𐡊, Hebrew kāp̄ כ‎, Phoenician kāp 𐤊, and Syriac kāp̄ ܟ.

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek kappa (Κ), Latin K, and Cyrillic К.

Representations

System Representation (click value to copy)
Nº 1603
UTF-8 D9 83
UTF-16 06 43
UTF-32 00 00 06 43
URL-Quoted %D9%83
HTML hex reference ك
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ùƒ
Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) E8
Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) DF
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 31 86 37
Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) E3
Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) AF
Adobe Glyph List afii57443
Adobe Glyph List kafarabic
digraph k+
RFC 5137 \u'0643'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e\u0643
C and C++ \u0643
C# \u0643
CSS \000643
Excel =UNICHAR(1603)
Go \u0643
JavaScript \u0643
Modern JavaScript since ES6\u{643}
JSON \u0643
Java \u0643
Lua \u{643}
Matlab char(1603)
Perl "\x{643}"
PHP \u{643}
PostgreSQL U&'\0643'
PowerShell `u{643}
Python \u0643
Ruby \u{643}
Rust \u{643}
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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) ARABIC LETTER KAF
Unicode 1 Name (na1) ARABIC LETTER CAF
Block (blk) Arabic
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Arabic
Bidirectional Category (bc) Arabic Letter
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) Kaf
Joining Type (jt) Dual Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R