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Glyph for U+06CB
Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve

U+06CB was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Arabic Letter and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+06CB behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و (sixth in abjadi order; 27th in modern Arabic order).

It represents the consonant [w] in classical Hebrew, and [v] in modern Hebrew, as well as the vowels [u] and [o]. In text with niqqud, a dot is added to the left or on top of the letter to indicate, respectively, the two vowel pronunciations.

It is the origin of Greek Ϝ (digamma) and Υ (upsilon), Cyrillic У, Latin F and V and later Y, and the derived Latin- or Roman-alphabet letters U, and W.

Representations

System Representation
1739
UTF-8 DB 8B
UTF-16 06 CB
UTF-32 00 00 06 CB
URL-Quoted %DB%8B
HTML hex reference ۋ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Û‹

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name ARABIC LETTER VE
Unicode 1 Name ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Script Arabic
Bidirectional Category Arabic Letter
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Case Folding Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group Waw
Joining Type Right Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R