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

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 to write names and loanwords, such as (Volvo

Volvo

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) and viyenna (Vienna

Vienna

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). It is also used in the Arabic-based/Sorani Kurdish alphabet

Kurdish alphabet

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.

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

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, 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)