U+069C "ڜ" Arabic Letter Seen with Three Dots Below and Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+069C "ڜ" Arabic Letter Seen with Three Dots Below and Three Dots Above is a modified form of the Arabic letter "س" (seen) used primarily in historical or dialectal Arabic orthography and certain African languages like Berber or Fulani. Its distinctive diacritical marks, with three dots arranged in a triangular pattern both above and below the base letter, indicate a specific phonetic value, typically representing a voiceless palatal or postalveolar fricative sound similar to the "sh" in English but with subtle variations depending on the language. This character is not part of standard modern Arabic but appears in Quranic manuscripts and transliteration systems for non-Arabic languages, where it helps accurately represent sounds absent in classical Arabic. Due to its rarity, it is not supported by all fonts or computer systems, which can cause display issues in digital text.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ڜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ڜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xDA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x069C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000069C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u069c |
Unicode Properties