U+06D1 "ۑ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Three Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06D1 "ۑ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Three Dots Below is a distinctive variant of the Arabic letter yeh, primarily used in certain African orthographies for languages such as Hausa, Fulfulde, and Kanuri to represent a specific sound, typically a voiced palatal implosive or a similar phoneme not found in standard Arabic. This character is formed by adding three dots beneath the base yeh shape, distinguishing it from other yeh variants like the one with three dots above. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Arabic block, enabling digital representation and text processing for languages that require this specialized letter in their writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06D1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Yeh with Three Dots Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Ya with Three Dots Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06D1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006D1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06d1 |