U+0759 "ݙ" Arabic Letter Dal with Two Dots Vertically Below and Small Tah Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ݙ

U+0759 "ݙ" Arabic Letter Dal with Two Dots Vertically Below and Small Tah is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in the Sindhi language, where it represents a distinct retroflex or implosive consonant sound not found in standard Arabic. This character combines a base Arabic dal (د) with two vertically arranged dots beneath it and a small diacritical tah (ط) shape above, forming a unique letter in the extended Arabic Unicode block. It is employed in orthographies for languages of South Asia, such as Sindhi written in the Perso-Arabic script, to accurately transcribe phonetic distinctions essential for proper pronunciation and meaning.

General Properties

Code Point U+0759
Version Added 4.1
Name Arabic Letter Dal with Two Dots Vertically Below and Small Tah
Block Arabic Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ݙ
HTML Hex Encoding ݙ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xDD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0759
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000759
C/C++/Java Escape \u0759

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Right Joining
Joining Group Dal
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter