Ṛe, also Aṛ, is a letter of the extended Arabic alphabet, based on rāʾ (ر) with the addition of a diacritical ṭāʾ (ط; historically four dots in a square pattern, e.g. ڙ)[1] on top. It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent the word-medial and word-final retroflex flap [ɽ] in Urdu, Punjabi written in the Shahmukhi script, and Kashmiri. The small t̤oʾe diacritic is used to indicate a retroflex consonant in Urdu. Its Abjad value is considered to be 200. In Urdu, this letter may also be called rā-ye-musaqqalā ("heavy re")[1] or rā-ye-hindiyā ("Indian re"). In Devanagari, this consonant is rendered using ‘ड़’ (‘ड’ with nuqta below).
| Position in word: | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naskh glyph form: (Help) |
ڑ | ـڑ | ـڑ | ڑ |
| Nastaʿlīq glyph form: | ڑ | ــــڑ | ــــڑ | ڑ |
Character encoding
edit| Preview | ڑ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | ARABIC LETTER RREH | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 1681 | U+0691 |
| UTF-8 | 218 145 | DA 91 |
| Numeric character reference | ڑ |
ڑ |
References
edit- ^ a b Shakespear, John (1818). A Grammar of the Hindustani Language. author. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
A Grammar of the Hindustani Language 1818.
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