Ve (Arabic)
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Ve is an additional letter of the Arabic letters, derived from () with two additional dots
Dot (diacritic)
When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the Interpunct , or to the glyphs 'combining dot above' and 'combining dot below'...

, representing the sound v. It is sometimes used in Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 to write names and loanwords, such as (Volvo
Volvo
AB Volvo is a Swedish builder of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and construction equipment. Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems, aerospace components and financial services...

) and viyenna (Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

). It is also used in the Arabic-based/Sorani Kurdish alphabet
Kurdish alphabet
The Kurdish language is written either using a variant of the Latin alphabet, according to a system introduced by Jeladet Ali Bedirkhan in 1932 , or using a variant of the Persian alphabet, the so-called Sorani alphabet, named for the city of Soran, Iraq.The Hawar is used in Turkey, Syria and...

.

In the Jawi script  is used to represent p.

The character is mapped in Unicode
Unicode
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 under position U+06A8.
Maghrebi style
Maghrebi script
Maghrebi script is a cursive form of the Arabic alphabet influenced by Kufic letters that developed in the Maghreb and later in Spain, particularly Andalusia.The Maghribi script can be divided in five other sub/scripts:...

, used in Northwestern Africa:

Similar looking letter

In Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian Arabic
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 and less likely in Algeria
Algeria
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, (, looks similar to but with three dots) is used for ɡ in informal occasions, and officially in names of places or persons containing a voiced velar stop, as in Guelma
Guelma
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, Algeria
Algeria
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 or Gafsa
Gafsa
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, Tunisia
Tunisia
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. If the usage of that letter is not possible for technical restrictions, qāf
Qoph
Qoph or Qop is the nineteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is an emphatic or . The OHED gives the letter Qoph a transliteration value of Q or a K and a final transliteration value as a ck...

() is often used instead in these dialects.

See also

  • ﭖ - Pe (Arabic)
  • ﭺ - Che (Arabic)
    Che (Arabic)
    Che is an additional letter of the Persian alphabet, used to represent , and which derives from by the addition of two dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Persian and other Iranian languages but not in Arabic...

  • گ - Gaf (Arabic)
    Gaf
    Gaf or Gāf may be the name of four different Perso-Arabic letters, all representing . They are all forms of the letter kāf, with additional diacritics, such as dots and lines. There are three forms, each used in different places:* in Persian & Urdu...

  • ژ - Zhe /ʒ/ (Arabic)
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