U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF

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Decimal / Nº
2236
General Category
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+08BC, officially named ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF, was introduced in Unicode version 9.0. It is part of the Arabic Ext A 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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2236 Copied!
UTF-8 E0 A2 BC Copied!
UTF-16 08 BC Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 08 BC Copied!
URL-Quoted %E0%A2%BC Copied!
HTML hex reference ࢼ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'08BC' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u08BC Copied!
C and C++ \u08bc Copied!
C# \u08bc Copied!
CSS \0008BC Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(2236) Copied!
Go \u08bc Copied!
JavaScript \u08BC Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{08bc} Copied!
JSON \u08BC Copied!
Java \u08BC Copied!
Lua \u{08BC} Copied!
Matlab char(2236) Copied!
Perl \x{08BC} Copied!
PHP \u{08bc} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\08BC' Copied!
PowerShell `u{08BC} Copied!
Python \u08bc Copied!
Ruby \u{08bc} Copied!
Rust \u{08bc} Copied!