U+0694 "ڔ" Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڔ
U+0694 "ڔ" Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below is a variant of the Arabic letter "reh" (ر) that appears in certain extended Arabic scripts, including those used for languages like Sindhi, Kashmiri, and occasionally in Arabic-based orthographies for African languages. It represents a distinct phoneme, typically a retroflex or similar non-emphatic consonantal sound, differing from the standard "reh" by the presence of a small dot placed directly beneath the letter's base. This distinction can affect both pronunciation and meaning in written text, and the form is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Arabic Extended-A block for precise digital representation and interchange.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0694 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Reh with Dot Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Ra with Dot Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0694 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000694 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0694 |