U+069A "ښ" Arabic Letter Seen with Dot Below and Dot Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ښ
Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+069A "ښ" Arabic Letter Seen with Dot Below and Dot Above is a distinctive letter used primarily in the Pashto alphabet, where it represents a voiceless retroflex fricative sound similar to the "sh" in "shrimp" but produced with the tongue curled back. It is also utilized in other languages such as Ormuri and some dialects of Urdu, though it may represent a different phonetic value in those contexts. This character is a variant of the standard Arabic letter Seen, modified by adding both a dot below and a dot above to create a unique glyph essential for accurately writing and reading Pashto orthography.

General Properties

Code Point
U+069A
Name
Arabic Letter Seen with Dot Below and Dot Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ښ
HTML Hex Encoding
ښ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDA 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x069A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000069A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u069a