What ڣ means
In Arwi, it represents Tamil /p/. Arwi, also called Arabu-Tamil, uses this fa-based letter for the /p/ sound in Tamil. The broader Arwi writing practice is attested at least in the eighteenth century. The added lower dot let an Arabic-derived script represent a Tamil sound not found in Arabic, so Arabic and Tamil could be written in the same right-to-left script.
The Arwi reading does not carry over to Ingush. The same form is recorded in a historical Arabic orthography for Ingush, a system that began in the late 19th century and was replaced first by Latin and then by Cyrillic by the 1920s. Its presence there does not establish the Arwi /p/ value.
A Unicode proposal in 2013 documented disagreement about the dot’s position: it had been drawn too centrally, and a correction placed it beneath the feh loop. Read the surrounding language before assigning a sound.
A specialist and historical letter whose reading depends on the writing tradition.
The dot alone does not tell you the sound; check the language.
Drift: By 2018, scholarship described Arwi publishing as largely archival: older works were being reprinted, while new Tamil texts were not then appearing in Arabic script.
Who writes ڣ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA fa-based letter for the Tamil /p/ sound.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ڣ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ڣ
- Search it as
- arwi · arabu-tamil · arabic-tamil · Tamil p · Ingush · feh dot below
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ڣ\06A3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.