Khē
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Khē, or Keheh, is a letter of the Arabic script, used to write /kʰ/ in Sindhi. It is equivalent to ख in Sindhi's Devanagari orthography.
| Position in word: | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glyph form: (Help) |
ک | ـک | ـکـ | کـ |
In Arabic, it is considered a variant form of kāf, notably al-kāf al-mashkūlah or al-kāf al-mashqūqah, and is used in rasm writing of the Arabic language.[1] It is the predominant form of kāf in the Perso-Arabic script. But in Sindhi, khē and kāf are differentiated: khē (ک) is used consistently for /kʰ/, and kāf (ڪ) for /k/. This is similar to the history of I and J, and of U and V, in the Latin alphabet.
Character encodings
| Preview | ک | ﮐ | ﮑ | ﮏ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | ARABIC LETTER KEHEH | ARABIC LETTER KEHEH INITIAL FORM | ARABIC LETTER KEHEH MEDIAL FORM | ARABIC LETTER KEHEH FINAL FORM | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1705 | U+06A9 | 64400 | U+FB90 | 64401 | U+FB91 | 64399 | U+FB8F |
| UTF-8 | 218 169 | DA A9 | 239 174 144 | EF AE 90 | 239 174 145 | EF AE 91 | 239 174 143 | EF AE 8F |
| Numeric character reference | ک | ک | ﮐ | ﮐ | ﮑ | ﮑ | ﮏ | ﮏ |
This glyph may not be rendered or displayed correctly on Apple devices. This is because Apple uses various fonts to render Arabic text. It will also not be rendered for languages displayed as Nasta’liq in the language list in Apple devices.
