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arabic letter veh final form

Arabic letter Veh, final form

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ﭫ is the final presentation form of ڤ, not a separate letter. In ordinary Arabic-script text, write the base letter ڤ and let text shaping choose its form; use ﭫ only when that exact compatibility character is required. Depending on the writing tradition, the underlying letter can represent /v/, /p/, or a bilabial fricative.

Text symbol

What ﭫ means

No. It is the final presentation form of ڤ.

Arabic presentation form compatibility characters store shaped variants of letters. In ordinary Arabic-script text, the nominal Veh letter ڤ is the one to enter; the shaping engine chooses an isolated, initial, medial, or final glyph from context.

The final form joins the preceding letter on its right-hand side at the end of a joining sequence. It changes the displayed shape, not the word or letter identity.

What sound does Veh have?

Its sound depends on the writing tradition, not this final-form character.

Veh’s three dots were added to ف in Arabic-derived writing to represent sounds outside Arabic’s inherited set. Early New Persian manuscripts use the dotted form for a bilabial fricative, while Central Kurdish uses it for /v/. The cited Kurdish records include Khalidi’s dictionary from 1892 and the periodical Kurdistan from 1898–1902.

The same base letter ڤ represents /p/ in Malay Jawi. Some Arabic writing uses it for /v/ in foreign names and loanwords. Persian-script letters such as پ, چ, ژ, and گ show related adaptations that add dots to Arabic letter shapes.

Technical and typographic: this form marks a specific text-encoding need, not a conversational tone.

For ordinary Arabic-script text, use ڤ; text tools may normalize ﭫ to that base letter.

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Who writes ﭫ

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Questions people ask

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why does ﭫ turn into ڤ

That is expected: compatibility normalization can map ﭫ to the nominal Veh letter ڤ. A text tool may therefore replace the explicit final-form character with the base letter.

How to type or find ﭫ

Also called
veh · ve · va
Search it as
ڤ · fa three dots · three dot feh · kurdish veh · jawi pa · persian veh · final form · presentation form
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType FB6B, then AltX to get ﭫ.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “arabic letter veh final form”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType fb6b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ﭫ
CSS
\FB6B
how to type Arabic Veh final form
For ordinary text, enter ڤ. Arabic text shaping selects its isolated, initial, medial, or final form from context.
Exact character
Use your editor’s Unicode input for ﭫ when a legacy record or test specifically requires this presentation-form code point.
After normalization
Compatibility normalization can turn ﭫ into ڤ. Compare code points when the explicit form must be preserved.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ﭫ
HTML hex
ﭫ
CSS content
content: "\FB6B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%AD%AB
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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