U+06B9 "ڹ" Arabic Letter Noon with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڹ
U+06B9 "ڹ" Arabic Letter Noon with Dot Below is a distinct grapheme used in certain Arabic-based orthographies, primarily for representing a specific phonetic variant of the nasal consonant "n" in languages such as some dialects of Kashmiri, where a dot below the noon letter signifies a voiceless or emphatic articulation distinct from the standard noon. This character is encoded in the Arabic block of Unicode to accommodate extended Arabic script usage beyond classical Arabic, ensuring accurate digital representation for minority languages and specialized linguistic transcriptions that require this modified form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06B9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Noon with Dot Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06b9 |