What 𞸜 means
Dotless forms help distinguish math letters with similar Arabic shapes.
Several Arabic letters share a base and differ only by dots, so dotless forms reduce ambiguity in equations. The formula or local convention assigns this letter-shaped symbol its role; it is not a fixed operation.
Its letter tradition appears in Arabic manuscripts and print over centuries. A 2006 Unicode proposal described the signs as still handwritten or typewritten and cited the 1987 Amman convention for scientific symbols in Arabic. A 2006 W3C note documents regional differences: Maghreb and Mashreq styles can use different function letters and mathematical directions.
Who writes 𞸜
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𞸜 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 𞸜
- Search it as
- arabic math · dotless beh · arabic dotless letter · math beh
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𞸜\1EE1CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.