U+069F "ڟ" Arabic Letter Tah with Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+069F "ڟ" Arabic Letter Tah with Three Dots Above is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in certain African languages, such as Hausa and Fulfulde, to represent a retroflex or emphatic consonant sound not found in standard Arabic. It is derived from the Arabic letter Tah (ت) by adding three dots arranged in a triangular pattern above the base form, distinguishing it from other dotted variations. This character is part of the Arabic script block in Unicode and is encoded for digital text representation, enabling accurate transcription and typing of languages that require this distinct phonetic value in their orthographies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+069F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Tah with Three Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x069F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000069F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u069f |