U+075F "ݟ" Arabic Letter Ain with Two Dots Vertically Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+075F "ݟ" Arabic Letter Ain with Two Dots Vertically Above is a modified Arabic letter used in certain extended Arabic script contexts, primarily for the representation of specific sounds in languages such as Sindhi and other regional languages of South Asia. It is based on the standard Arabic letter Ain, which represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative, but the addition of two vertically aligned dots above the character alters its phonetic value to denote a different consonantal sound, often a voiced implosive or a retroflex stop, depending on the language's orthographic conventions. This character belongs to the Arabic Supplement block in Unicode and is encoded to support the accurate transcription and digital representation of non-Arabic languages that require diacritical modifications to the basic Arabic alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+075F
Version Added 4.1
Name Arabic Letter Ain with Two Dots Vertically Above
Block Arabic Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ݟ
HTML Hex Encoding ݟ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xDD 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x075F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000075F
C/C++/Java Escape \u075f

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