U+06FB "ۻ" Arabic Letter Dad with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06FB "ۻ" Arabic Letter Dad with Dot Below is a variant form of the Arabic letter ḍād (ض) that features an additional dot placed beneath the base letter, and it is used in specific orthographic traditions, such as in certain Quranic scripts or in the writing of African languages like Wolof and Fulani, where it represents a distinct phoneme, typically a voiced velar or uvular fricative sound that differs from standard Arabic pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06FB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Dad with Dot Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06fb |