U+06CA ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE

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Decimal / Nº
1738
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Arabic Letter
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+06CA, officially named ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Arabic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Arabic script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Arabic Letter character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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1738 Copied!
UTF-8 DB 8A Copied!
UTF-16 06 CA Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 06 CA Copied!
URL-Quoted %DB%8A Copied!
HTML hex reference ۊ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'06CA' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u06CA Copied!
C and C++ \u06ca Copied!
C# \u06ca Copied!
CSS \0006CA Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(1738) Copied!
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JavaScript \u06CA Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{06ca} Copied!
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Matlab char(1738) Copied!
Perl \x{06CA} Copied!
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