U+06FA "ۺ" Arabic Letter Sheen with Dot Below Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+06FA "ۺ" Arabic Letter Sheen with Dot Below is a modified form of the Arabic letter Sheen (ش) used primarily in certain regional orthographies, such as for the Sindhi language, to represent a distinct phoneme. It features a single dot placed beneath the base character, which alters the standard pronunciation of Sheen to a palatal or retroflex sound not found in classical Arabic. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Arabic block to support the accurate digital representation of languages that require this specific glyph.

General Properties

Code Point
U+06FA
Name
Arabic Letter Sheen with Dot Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ۺ
HTML Hex Encoding
ۺ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDB 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0x06FA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000006FA
C/C++/Java Escape
\u06fa