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U+06AF · ARABIC LETTER GAF

Arabic Letter Gaf

  • CodepointU+06AF
  • NameARABIC LETTER GAF
  • Decimal1711
  • 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+06AF (گ) is ARABIC LETTER GAF, 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 گ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8DA AF2 bytes
UTF-1606AF1 code unit
UTF-32000006AF4 bytes
HTML decimalگ
HTML hexگ
CSS\6AFin content: "…"
JavaScript\u06AF
JSON\u06AF
Python\u06AF
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER GAF}by name
Java / C#\u06AF
C / C++\u06AFuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{6AF}
Go\u06AF
Ruby\u06AF
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1711)
URL-encoded%DA%AFpercent-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+08B0ࢰArabic Letter Gaf with Inverted Stroke U+FB92ﮒArabic Letter Gaf Isolated Form U+FB93ﮓArabic Letter Gaf Final Form U+FB94ﮔArabic Letter Gaf Initial Form U+FB95ﮕArabic Letter Gaf Medial Form
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Characters built on گ

U+FB92ﮒArabic Letter Gaf Isolated Form U+FB93ﮓArabic Letter Gaf Final Form U+FB94ﮔArabic Letter Gaf Initial Form U+FB95ﮕArabic Letter Gaf Medial Form
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+06A9کArabic Letter Keheh U+06AAڪArabic Letter Swash Kaf U+06ABګArabic Letter Kaf with Ring U+06ACڬArabic Letter Kaf with Dot Above U+06ADڭArabic Letter NG U+06AEڮArabic Letter Kaf with Three Dots Below U+06B0ڰArabic Letter Gaf with Ring U+06B1ڱArabic Letter Ngoeh U+06B2ڲArabic Letter Gaf with Two Dots Below U+06B3ڳArabic Letter Gueh U+06B4ڴArabic Letter Gaf with Three Dots Above U+06B5ڵArabic Letter Lam with Small V