U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
U+0643 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+0643 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 43 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Kaph (also spelled kaf) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician kāp 𐤊, Hebrew kāp̄ כ, Aramaic kāp 𐡊, Syriac kāp̄ ܟ, and Arabic kāf ك (in abjadi order).
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek kappa (Κ), Latin K, and Cyrillic К.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1603 |
| UTF-8 | D9 83 |
| UTF-16 | 06 43 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 43 |
| URL-Quoted | %D9%83 |
| HTML hex reference | ك |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ùƒ |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | E3 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | DF |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57443 |
| Adobe Glyph List | kafarabic |
| digraph | k+ |
Related Characters
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Jeem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Hah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Khah Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Maksura Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Yeh Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Maksura Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Jeem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Hah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Khah Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Medial Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Medial Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem with Yeh Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem with Meem Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem with Meem Initial Form
- Arabic Ligature Akbar Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Kaf Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Kaf Final Form
- Arabic Letter Kaf Initial Form
- Arabic Letter Kaf Medial Form
- Arabic Mathematical Kaf
- Arabic Mathematical Initial Kaf
- Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER KAF | |
| ARABIC LETTER CAF | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Kaf | |
| Dual Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Kaf | |
| R |