What ﮇ means
ﮇ is a genuine older final form, not today's Sindhi spelling. Its base letter is ڎ ; modern Sindhi writes Dul as ڏ . Unicode 17.0 marks ڎ obsolete in Sindhi and lists it for Burushaski.
Sindhi has been written in several scripts. Arabic-Sindhi writing was in use in the Mansura region by the late 10th century, and the revised Arabic-Sindhi alphabet was formally adopted in 1853. The expanded script distinguished Sindhi sounds the basic Arabic inventory did not mark. Those dates belong to the script's history, not the origin of this exact compatibility form.
When should I use ﮇ?
Use it only when an exact legacy character must be retained. UFB87 stores the final presentation of older U068E. For new Sindhi, use current Dul, ڏ ; Arabic shaping selects its connected form from context.
As of 2026, Unicode guidance recommends nominal Arabic characters for ordinary text and leaves contextual shaping to the renderer. Presentation forms remain useful when preserving text that already contains the exact legacy code point.
Technical and archival: it stores an explicit final glyph for an older Sindhi Dul letter.
For new Sindhi writing, use ڏ; ﮇ preserves an older explicit form.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Can I replace ﮇ with ڏ in an archive?
Only as an intentional conversion. They encode different letters: ﮇ is the final form of older ڎ, while ڏ is modern Sindhi Dul. Preserve the source form when the archive must represent its original text.
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How to type or find ﮇ
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- dul · dul final form · old dul · Sindhi dul · Burushaski dul · U+068E · U+068F · U+FB87
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ﮇ\FB87Codes and encoding1 code points
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