U+06B6 "ڶ" Arabic Letter Lam with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڶ
U+06B6 "ڶ" Arabic Letter Lam with Dot Above is a specific variant of the Arabic letter Lam, distinguished by a single dot placed above the main character. This letter is utilized in certain extended Arabic alphabets to represent a distinct phonetic sound, often a voiced or retroflex equivalent of the standard Arabic lam, and it appears in languages such as Saraiki, where it denotes a retroflex lateral sound. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across systems, preserving the unique orthographic needs of these languages within the broader Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06B6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Lam with Dot Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06b6 |