U+08AE "ࢮ" Arabic Letter Dal with Three Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08AE "ࢮ" Arabic Letter Dal with Three Dots Below is a specialized extension of the Arabic script, specifically a variant of the letter "dal" (د) distinguished by three dots placed beneath it, which is used in certain African languages such as Hausa, Fulani, and Mandinka to represent a voiced dental implosive or a retroflex sound not found in standard Arabic. This character belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block, a range dedicated to supporting additional letters needed for writing various non-Arabic languages that use the Arabic script. Its purpose is to provide a precise orthographic representation for these languages, ensuring accurate transcription of sounds that are otherwise absent from the basic Arabic alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08AE |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Dal with Three Dots Below |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08ae |