U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw
U+0648 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+0648 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 39 other glyphs.
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 |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1608 |
| UTF-8 | D9 88 |
| UTF-16 | 06 48 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 06 48 |
| URL-Quoted | %D9%88 |
| HTML hex reference | و |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ùˆ |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | E8 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii57448 |
| Adobe Glyph List | wawarabic |
| digraph | w+ |
Related Characters
- Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above
- Arabic Letter High Hamza Waw
- Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Waw Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Waw Final Form
- Arabic Ligature Rasoul Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Wasallam Isolated Form
- Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
- Arabic Letter Waw Isolated Form
- Arabic Letter Waw Final Form
- Arabic Mathematical Waw
- Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw
- Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Waw
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER WAW | |
| — | |
| Arabic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| Waw | |
| Right Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Waw | |
| R |