Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Gāf
- Grapheme.letter
- گ
- Grapheme.script
- Arabic script
- Grapheme.type
- Abjad
- Grapheme.language
- Persian language
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 26
- Grapheme.fam2
- 𐡊
- Grapheme.fam3
- 𐢎, 𐢏
- Grapheme.direction
- Right-to-left
- Grapheme.fam1
- 𐤊
- Grapheme.fam4
- ك, كـ
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- Use in Arabic
- Variant forms
- Kaf with line
- Kaf with ring
- Kaf with single dot above
- Kaf with three dots below
- Gaf with inverted stroke
- Kaf with a dot below
- Kaf with three dots
- Character encoding
- See also
- References
- External links
120px|thumb|One form of gaf
Gaf (; ), is the name of different Perso-Arabic letters, all representing . They are all derived from the letter kāf, with additional diacritics, such as dots and lines. In name and shape, it is a variant of kaf. It is also one of the five letters the Persian alphabet added to the Arabic alphabet (the others being , , and in addition to the obsolete ). Its numerical value is 5000 (see Abjad numerals). There are four forms, each used in different alphabets: in the Persian alphabet, Tausug written in Arabic Script in the Jawi script in the Pegon script in Pashto