U+06FA "ۺ" Arabic Letter Sheen with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06FA "ۺ" Arabic Letter Sheen with Dot Below is a modified form of the Arabic letter Sheen (ش) used primarily in certain regional orthographies, such as for the Sindhi language, to represent a distinct phoneme. It features a single dot placed beneath the base character, which alters the standard pronunciation of Sheen to a palatal or retroflex sound not found in classical Arabic. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Arabic block to support the accurate digital representation of languages that require this specific glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06FA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Sheen with Dot Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06fa |