U+06A8 Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above
U+06A8 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+06A8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ve (based on name of the letter ف fāʾ) ڤ is a letter of the Arabic-based Kurdish, Comoro, Wakhi, and Karakhanid alphabets. It is derived from the Arabic letter fāʾ (ف) with two additional dots. It represents the sound /v/ in the aforementioned uses.
Ve originated as one of the new letters added for the Perso-Arabic alphabet to write New Persian, and it was used for the sound /β/. This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the [β]-sound changed to [b], e.g. archaic زڤان /zaβɑn/ > زبان /zæbɒn/ 'language'
It is sometimes used in Arabic language to write names and loanwords with the phoneme /v/, such as ڤولڤو (Volvo) and ڤيينا viyenna (Vienna), but rather described, for example, in Egyptian Arabic, it is called fe be talat noʾaṭ (فه بتلات نقط, "Fa' with three dots").
It is also frequently used in Israel for transcribing names that have a /v/ sound into Arabic, which is used on Israel's street plates, on signs and labels.
In Jawi script, used for Malay language, ڤ stands for /p/.
The character is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A4.
The Maghrebi style, used in Northwestern Africa, the dots moved underneath (Unicode U+06A5), because it is based on the other style of fāʼ (ڢ):
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1704 |
| UTF-8 | DA A8 |
| UTF-16 | 06 A8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 A8 |
| URL-Quoted | %DA%A8 |
| HTML hex reference | ڨ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ú¨ |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER QAF WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE | |
| — | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Qaf | |
| Dual Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Qaf with Three Dots Above | |
| R |