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

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 Dual Joining
Joining Group Ain
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