Unicode Character "و" U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw

Unicode Version 15.1

و

Summary

The unicode character "و" at code point U+0648 is Arabic Letter Waw. It is a character in the Arabic block and is part of the Arabic script. The character is an other letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "و" is 0xD9 0x88 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0648.

General Properties

Code Point U+0648
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Waw
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding و
HTML Hex Encoding و
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD9 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0648
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000648
C/C++/Java Escape \u0648

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Right Joining
Joining Group Waw
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter