U+069C "ڜ" Arabic Letter Seen with Three Dots Below and Three Dots Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ڜ
Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+069C "ڜ" Arabic Letter Seen with Three Dots Below and Three Dots Above is a modified form of the Arabic letter "س" (seen) used primarily in historical or dialectal Arabic orthography and certain African languages like Berber or Fulani. Its distinctive diacritical marks, with three dots arranged in a triangular pattern both above and below the base letter, indicate a specific phonetic value, typically representing a voiceless palatal or postalveolar fricative sound similar to the "sh" in English but with subtle variations depending on the language. This character is not part of standard modern Arabic but appears in Quranic manuscripts and transliteration systems for non-Arabic languages, where it helps accurately represent sounds absent in classical Arabic. Due to its rarity, it is not supported by all fonts or computer systems, which can cause display issues in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point
U+069C
Name
Arabic Letter Seen with Three Dots Below and Three Dots Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ڜ
HTML Hex Encoding
ڜ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDA 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x069C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000069C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u069c