Ve (<big></big>) is a letter of the Arabic-based Comoro, Kurdish, Luri, Swahili, and Wakhi alphabets. It is derived from the Arabic letter (<big></big>) with two additional dots. It represents the sound in the aforementioned uses. On the other hand, the letter Pa () represents the sound in the Jawi (used for Malay) and Pegon (used for Javanese) alphabets.
Ve originated as one of the new letters added for the Perso-Arabic alphabet to write New Persian, and it was used for the sound . This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the -sound changed to , e.g. archaic > 'language'
The letter ve is sometimes used in Arabic language to write names and loanwords with the phoneme , such as và «lvà « (Volvo), vëtnÃÂm (Vietnam), nà «vimbar (November) and viyënnà(Vienna), but rather described, for example, in Egyptian Arabic, it is called ' (, "Fa' with three dots").
The character <big></big> is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A4.
The character <big></big> is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A5.
The Maghrebi style, used in Northwestern Africa, the dots moved underneath (Unicode U+06A5), because it is based on the other style of ' (<big></big>):
In Tunisian and in Algerian, (<big></big>, looks similar to <big></big> but with three dots) is used for , such as in names of places or persons containing a voiced velar stop, as in Gafsa (in Tunisia) or Guelma (in Algeria). If the usage of that letter is not possible for technical restrictions, qÃÂf (<big></big>) is often used instead.
In Arabic script representations of the Chechen language, <big></big> is used to represent the uvular ejective , and in Hindko language, in Pakistan, called vaf.