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 |