U+068D "ڍ" Arabic Letter Ddahal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ڍ

U+068D "ڍ" Arabic Letter Ddahal is a letter used in the extended Arabic script, specifically representing a voiced dental plosive sound that is emphatic or pharyngealized, similar to a hard "d" sound in some Arabic dialects and languages such as Sindhi and Saraiki. This character is not a standard letter in the modern Arabic alphabet but rather an additional glyph for languages that require extra phonetic distinctions. It is encoded in the Unicode block for Arabic, from U+0600 to U+06FF, and its shape resembles a dal (د) with a small dot or diacritic above, indicating a variation in pronunciation. As with most Arabic letters, ڍ connects to preceding and following characters in cursive writing, appearing with different forms depending on its position in a word.

General Properties

Code Point U+068D
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ddahal
Unicode 1.0 Name Arabic Letter Dal with Two Dots Below
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ڍ
HTML Hex Encoding ڍ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xDA 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x068D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000068D
C/C++/Java Escape \u068d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Right Joining
Joining Group Dal
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter