U+069A "ښ" Arabic Letter Seen with Dot Below and Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ښ
U+069A "ښ" Arabic Letter Seen with Dot Below and Dot Above is a distinctive letter used primarily in the Pashto alphabet, where it represents a voiceless retroflex fricative sound similar to the "sh" in "shrimp" but produced with the tongue curled back. It is also utilized in other languages such as Ormuri and some dialects of Urdu, though it may represent a different phonetic value in those contexts. This character is a variant of the standard Arabic letter Seen, modified by adding both a dot below and a dot above to create a unique glyph essential for accurately writing and reading Pashto orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+069A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Seen with Dot Below and Dot Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ښ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ښ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x069A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000069A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u069a |