U+FB6C Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form
U+FB6C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arabic Presentation Forms-A in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is an initial version of the glyph Arabic Letter Veh. 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+FB6C 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'
The letter is sometimes used unofficially in Arabic dialects to write foreign names and loanwords with the phoneme /v/ instead of using ف /f/, such as ڤولڤو (Volvo), ڤيتنام (Vietnam), نوڤمبر (November) and ڤيينا (Vienna) instead of the official transcribe فولفو, فيتنام, نوفمبر and فيينا. In Egyptian Arabic, it is called fe be talat noʾaṭ (فه بتلات نقط, "Fa' with three dots").
In Jawi script, used for Malay language, ڤ stands for /p/.
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.
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 | 64364 |
| UTF-8 | EF AD AC |
| UTF-16 | FB 6C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FB 6C |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%AD%AC |
| HTML hex reference | ﭬ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ï¬ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 30 BD 30 |
| Adobe Glyph List | vehinitialarabic |
Related Characters
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER VEH INITIAL FORM | |
| — | |
| Arabic Presentation Forms-A | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| initial | |
| Arabic Letter Veh | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Veh | |
| No | |
| Arabic Letter Veh | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Veh Initial Form | |
| R |