U+0766 "ݦ" Arabic Letter Meem with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ݦ
U+0766 "ݦ" Arabic Letter Meem with Dot Below is a unique glyph used in certain extended Arabic scripts, primarily for the transcription of non-Arabic languages such as African languages like Fulani or Hausa, where it represents a specific phonetic variant of the letter meem, typically denoting a voiced bilabial nasal sound with a diacritical modification. This character belongs to the Arabic Supplement block and is distinct from the standard Arabic meem due to the dot placed beneath its body, which alters its pronunciation or linguistic function in specialized orthographies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0766 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Meem with Dot Below |
| Block | Arabic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ݦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ݦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDD 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0766 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000766 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0766 |