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ݙ

Additional letter of the Arabic script

ݙ is an additional letter of the Arabic script, not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Saraiki to represent a voiced alveolar implosive, [ɗ]. Its other form is also found in Saraiki as spoken in Multan in the form of voiced retroflex implosive, [].

It is written as in Saraiki and Sindhi's Devanagari orthography. It is derived from the letter ḍāl (ڈ), which is used to represent the [ɖ], and two dots below to represent implosion (as in Sindhi). The Unicode character for ݙ was approved in 2005.

01Forms

The letter ݙ has 2 forms.

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Naskh glyph form:
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ݙ ـݙ ـݙ ݙ
Nastaliq glyph form: ݙ ــــݙ ــــݙ ݙ
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