U+069D "ڝ" Arabic Letter Sad with Two Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڝ
U+069D "ڝ" Arabic Letter Sad with Two Dots Below is a modified letter from the Arabic script, specifically derived from the standard letter Ṣād (ص) by adding two dots beneath it. This character is used primarily in certain historical or regional orthographies of the Arabic alphabet, particularly in languages like Hausa, where it represents a distinct sound, often the voiceless palatal fricative or a similar phoneme not found in standard Arabic. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the accurate digital representation of these linguistic traditions, allowing for proper text rendering and preservation of written heritage in fields such as linguistics and religious studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+069D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Sad with Two Dots Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x069D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000069D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u069d |