ݙ

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 Spoken in Jhang in the form of voiced retroflex implosive, [ᶑ].

Saraiki alphabet
ا ب ٻ پ ت ٹ ث ج ڄ چ ح خ د ڊ ڈ ݙ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ڳ ل م ن ݨ و ہ ھ ء ی ے
Extended Perso-Arabic script

It is written as ॾ in Saraiki and Sindhi's Devanagari orthography. It is derived from dāl (د), with a small ṭāʼ (ط) above to represent retroflexion (as in Urdu), and two dots below to represent implosion (as in Sindhi). The unicode for saraiki letter ݙ was approved in 2005.[1]

Forms

The letter ݙ has 2 forms.

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form:
(Help)		 ݙ‎ ـݙ‎ ـݙ‎ ݙ‎

It may not rendered or joined if you are using a custom font because it's in Arabic Supplement block but not Arabic block. Some Apple users also won't render because Apple is using various font to render Arabic text. For other uses, go to see Help:Arabic.

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See also

References
  1. "Unicode Character 'ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW AND SMALL TAH' (U+0759)". www.fileformat.info.


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