U+075D "ݝ" Arabic Letter Ain with Two Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ݝ
U+075D "ݝ" Arabic Letter Ain with Two Dots Above is a specialized variant of the Arabic letter ʿAyn, distinguished by two dots placed above the character's main body. Primarily used in a number of African languages written with the Arabic script, such as Fula, Hausa, and Wolof, this letter represents a voiced velar or uvular fricative sound, similar to a hard g, which is not found in standard Arabic. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for the accurate digital representation of these languages, ensuring that texts can be properly displayed and processed across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+075D |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Ain with Two Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ݝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ݝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDD 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x075D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000075D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u075d |