What ﮿ means
It isolates a ring-shaped mark used with Arabic-script letters.
Pashto uses an adapted form of the Arabic script. In Pashto spelling, the ring is part of complete letters such as ګ; ﮿ gives that feature its own character position. This Pashto ring mark appears in teaching, charts, or script analysis, not as a substitute inside a word.
Evidence for Pashto writing reaches the mid-sixteenth century in Khayr al-bayān, an instructional treatise that explains how to write Pashto sounds and lists the alphabet. The oldest surviving copy described is dated 1651. Pashto adapts Arabic script with extra letters for sounds not represented in standard Arabic.
Is ﮿ the Pashto letter ګ?
No. ګ is a full Pashto letter; ﮿ is the isolated ring mark.
A ring appears as part of several Arabic-script letters. Pashto ګ and ڼ, and the Lahnda-associated ڰ, are complete letters with different bases; ﮿ isolates the ring feature rather than naming any of them.
The complete letter and its writing system determine what is read; this mark by itself is only a feature.
Technical and instructional; alone, it points to script analysis.
Do not replace a full Pashto letter such as ګ with ﮿.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsThe sender is pointing to the isolated mark for discussion.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why might ﮿ show as a box?
It can. This Arabic-script glyph depends on font support, so a missing or fallback font may show a box or a different ring shape.
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How to type or find ﮿
- Search it as
- arabic ring mark · pashto ring mark · ring mark FBBF · U+FBBF · isolated Arabic ring · Pashto letter with ring
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
﮿\FBBFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.