U+06BD "ڽ" Arabic Letter Noon with Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ڽ
U+06BD "ڽ" Arabic Letter Noon with Three Dots Above is a distinct grapheme used in the Arabic script to represent a specific phonetic sound, primarily in the Jawi script for writing Malay and several other languages in Southeast Asia. This character functions as a modified form of the Arabic letter noon, with three dots placed above it to indicate a palatal nasal sound, similar to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is utilized in linguistic contexts where precise orthographic representation of native phonemes is necessary, such as in writing the Malay word "ڽا" meaning "lamp."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06BD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Noon with Three Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ڽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ڽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDA 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06bd |