What ﮽ means
It shows how dot patterns distinguish Sindhi letters. A nuqta is a dot that distinguishes Arabic-script letters. In Sindhi, its number or position can change the letter. This sign depicts two dots above a sample letter but stands apart instead of joining it.
A Unicode proposal dated 29 January 2006 included dot patterns for Arabic-script teaching. A revised proposal dated 24 June 2008 grouped them as Arabic pedagogical symbols.
Instructional and typographic; it belongs in an explanation of Sindhi letter forms.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ﮽ 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 ﮽
- Also called
- Sindhi double nuqta vertical above
- Search it as
- nuqta · nukta · Sindhi dot pattern · vertical nuqta · two vertical dots
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
﮽\FBBDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.