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Also known as ARABIC LETTER KEHEH, keheh, kaf mashkula

Khē, or Keheh, is a letter of the Arabic script, used to write in Sindhi. It is equivalent to in Sindhi's Devanagari orthography.

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ک
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06A9
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ARABIC LETTER KEHEH
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ک
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Khē, or Keheh, is a letter of the Arabic script, used to write in Sindhi. It is equivalent to in Sindhi's Devanagari orthography.

In Arabic, it is considered a variant form of kāf, notably or , and is used in rasm writing of the Arabic language. It is the predominant form of kāf in the Perso-Arabic script. But in Sindhi, khē and kāf are differentiated: khē () is used consistently for , and kāf () for . This is similar to the history of I and J, and of U and V, in the Latin alphabet.

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