Ṭe is a letter of the extended Arabic alphabet, derived from te (ت) by replacing the dots with a small t̤oʾe (ط; historically four dots in a square pattern, e.g. ٿ[a]).[1] It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent an voiceless retroflex plosive [ʈ] 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 fifth letter of the Urdu alphabet. Its Abjad value is considered to be 400. In Urdu, this letter may also be called tā-ye-musaqqalā ("heavy te")[1] or tā-ye-hindiyā ("Indian te"). In Devanagari, this consonant is rendered using ‘’.

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Naskh glyph form:
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ٹ ـٹ ـٹـ ٹـ
Nastaʿlīq glyph form: ٹ ــــٹ ــــٹــــ ٹــــ

Character encoding

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Character information
Preview ٹ
Unicode name ARABIC LETTER TTEH
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 1657 U+0679
UTF-8 217 185 D9 B9
Numeric character reference ٹ ٹ

Some layout engines do not properly generate the medial and initial forms (which should look like ـٹـ and ) and will render the isolate form ٹ, without joining.

Notes

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  1. ^ The same glyph is used in modern Sindhi to represent [t̪ʰ].

References

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  1. ^ a b Shakespear, John (1818). A Grammar of the Hindustani Language. author. Retrieved 25 February 2020. A Grammar of the Hindustani Language 1818.