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U+0642 CHARACTER

ARABIC LETTER QAF

Quick Facts

Unicode Name ARABIC LETTER QAF
Code Point U+0642
Decimal Value 1602
General Category Other Letter (Lo) →
Unicode Block Arabic →
Script Arabic →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D9 82
UTF-16 Code Unit 0642
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000642
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 06 42 LE: 42 06
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 06 42 LE: 42 06 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ق
HTML Hexadecimal ق
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000642
JavaScript (ES6) \u0642
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0642
JSON Escape \u0642
Python \u0642
PHP "\u{642}"
Java "\u0642"
C / C++ "\u0642"
Rust '\u{642}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D9%82

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class AL — Arabic Letter (Right-to-Left Arabic)
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0642 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
ق
Context: A ق Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
ق
Context: A ق Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
ق
Context: A ق Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
ق
Context: A ق Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name ARABIC LETTER QAF

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0642

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