U+06B8 "ڸ" Arabic Letter Lam with Three Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڸ
U+06B8 "ڸ" Arabic Letter Lam with Three Dots Below is a variant of the Arabic letter lam (ل) distinguished by three dots placed beneath its baseline, specifically utilized in certain Arabic-based orthographies for non-Arabic languages. It is most notably employed in the writing of the Uyghur language, particularly in the Arabic-based Uyghur script used in Xinjiang, China, where it represents a voiced dental or alveolar lateral fricative sound, similar to the "ll" in Welsh or a "hl" combination. This character allows the script to accurately transcribe phonemes that do not occur in standard Arabic, demonstrating how the Unicode standard accommodates regional linguistic needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06B8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Lam with Three Dots Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06b8 |