U+069D "ڝ" Arabic Letter Sad with Two Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+069D "ڝ" Arabic Letter Sad with Two Dots Below is a modified letter from the Arabic script, specifically derived from the standard letter Ṣād (ص) by adding two dots beneath it. This character is used primarily in certain historical or regional orthographies of the Arabic alphabet, particularly in languages like Hausa, where it represents a distinct sound, often the voiceless palatal fricative or a similar phoneme not found in standard Arabic. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the accurate digital representation of these linguistic traditions, allowing for proper text rendering and preservation of written heritage in fields such as linguistics and religious studies.
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Arabic Letter Seen with Three Dots Below and Three Dots Above
ڞ
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U+069E
Arabic Letter Sad with Three Dots Above
General Properties
Code Point
U+069D
Name
Arabic Letter Sad with Two Dots Below
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ڝ
HTML Hex Encoding
ڝ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDA 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x069D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000069D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u069d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic