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U+0648 · ARABIC LETTER WAW

Arabic Letter Waw

  • CodepointU+0648
  • NameARABIC LETTER WAW
  • Decimal1608
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptArabic
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classAL — Arabic Letter
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0648 (و) is ARABIC LETTER WAW, a letter in the Arabic block. It belongs to the Arabic script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a strong right-to-left character (bidirectional class AL), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

How to type و

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D9 882 bytes
UTF-1606481 code unit
UTF-32000006484 bytes
HTML decimalو
HTML hexو
CSS\648in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0648
JSON\u0648
Python\u0648
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER WAW}by name
Java / C#\u0648
C / C++\u0648universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{648}
Go\u0648
Ruby\u0648
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1608)
URL-encoded%D9%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+08B1ࢱArabic Letter Straight Waw U+FEEDﻭArabic Letter Waw Isolated Form U+FEEEﻮArabic Letter Waw Final Form U+102E4𐋤Coptic Epact Digit Four U+1EE05𞸅Arabic Mathematical Waw U+1EE85𞺅Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw U+1EEA5𞺥Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Waw
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Characters built on و

U+0624ؤArabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above U+0676ٶArabic Letter High Hamza Waw U+FBEEﯮArabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Waw Isolated Form U+FBEFﯯArabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Waw Final Form U+FDF6ﷶArabic Ligature Rasoul Isolated Form U+FDF8ﷸArabic Ligature Wasallam Isolated Form U+FDFAﷺArabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam U+FEEDﻭArabic Letter Waw Isolated Form U+FEEEﻮArabic Letter Waw Final Form U+1EE05𞸅Arabic Mathematical Waw U+1EE85𞺅Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw U+1EEA5𞺥Arabic Mathematical Double-Struck Waw
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+0642قArabic Letter Qaf U+0643كArabic Letter Kaf U+0644لArabic Letter Lam U+0645مArabic Letter Meem U+0646نArabic Letter Noon U+0647هArabic Letter Heh U+0649ىArabic Letter Alef Maksura U+064AيArabic Letter Yeh U+064B◌ًArabic Fathatan U+064C◌ٌArabic Dammatan U+064D◌ٍArabic Kasratan U+064E◌َArabic Fatha