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U+06CC · ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH

Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh

  • CodepointU+06CC
  • NameARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH
  • Decimal1740
  • 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+06CC (ی) is ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH, 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 ی

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8DB 8C2 bytes
UTF-1606CC1 code unit
UTF-32000006CC4 bytes
HTML decimalی
HTML hexی
CSS\6CCin content: "…"
JavaScript\u06CC
JSON\u06CC
Python\u06CC
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH}by name
Java / C#\u06CC
C / C++\u06CCuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{6CC}
Go\u06CC
Ruby\u06CC
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1740)
URL-encoded%DB%8Cpercent-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+0649ىArabic Letter Alef Maksura U+064AيArabic Letter Yeh U+066EٮArabic Letter Dotless Beh U+06BAںArabic Letter Noon Ghunna U+06D2ےArabic Letter Yeh Barree U+08BDࢽArabic Letter African Noon U+FB9EﮞArabic Letter Noon Ghunna Isolated Form U+FB9FﮟArabic Letter Noon Ghunna Final Form U+FBAEﮮArabic Letter Yeh Barree Isolated Form U+FBAFﮯArabic Letter Yeh Barree Final Form U+FBE8ﯨArabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Initial Form U+FBE9ﯩArabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Medial Form U+FBFCﯼArabic Letter Farsi Yeh Isolated Form U+FBFDﯽArabic Letter Farsi Yeh Final Form U+FBFEﯾArabic Letter Farsi Yeh Initial Form U+FBFFﯿArabic Letter Farsi Yeh Medial Form
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Characters built on ی

U+FDFC﷼Rial Sign U+FBFCﯼArabic Letter Farsi Yeh Isolated Form U+FBFDﯽArabic Letter Farsi Yeh Final Form U+FBFEﯾArabic Letter Farsi Yeh Initial Form U+FBFFﯿArabic Letter Farsi Yeh Medial Form
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+06C6ۆArabic Letter Oe U+06C7ۇArabic Letter U U+06C8ۈArabic Letter Yu U+06C9ۉArabic Letter Kirghiz Yu U+06CAۊArabic Letter Waw with Two Dots Above U+06CBۋArabic Letter Ve U+06CDۍArabic Letter Yeh with Tail U+06CEێArabic Letter Yeh with Small V U+06CFۏArabic Letter Waw with Dot Above U+06D0ېArabic Letter E U+06D1ۑArabic Letter Yeh with Three Dots Below U+06D2ےArabic Letter Yeh Barree