Ḍal or ḍāl is a letter of the extended Arabic alphabet, derived from dāl (د) by placing a small t̤oʾe (ط; historically four dots in a square pattern, e.g. ڐ)[1] on top. It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent a voiced retroflex plosive [ɖ] in Urdu, Punjabi written in the Shahmukhi script, and Kashmiri as well as Balochi. The small t̤oʾe diacritic is used to indicate a retroflex consonant in Urdu. It is the twelfth letter of the Urdu alphabet. Its Abjad value is considered to be 4. In Urdu, this letter may also be called dāl-e-musaqqalā ("heavy dal")[1] or dāl-e-hindiyā ("Indian dal"). In Devanagari, this consonant is rendered using ‘ड’.
| Position in word: | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naskh glyph form: (Help) |
ڈ | ـڈ | ـڈ | ڈ |
| Nastaʿlīq glyph form: | ڈ | ــــڈ | ــــڈ | ڈ |
Character encoding
edit| Preview | ڈ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | ARABIC LETTER DDAL | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 1672 | U+0688 |
| UTF-8 | 218 136 | DA 88 |
| Numeric character reference | ڈ |
ڈ |
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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