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 ‘’.

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Naskh glyph form:
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ڈ ـڈ ـڈ ڈ
Nastaʿlīq glyph form: ڈ ــــڈ ــــڈ ڈ

Character encoding

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Character information
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

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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.