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Ṛe,alsoAṛ,is a letter of the extendedArabic alphabet,based onrāʾ(ر) with the addition of a diacriticalṭāʾ(ط;historically four dots in a square pattern, e.g.ڙ)[1]on top. It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent the word-medial and word-finalretroflex flap[ɽ] inUrdu,Punjabiwritten in theShahmukhiscript, andKashmiri.The small t̤oʾe diacritic is used to indicate aretroflex consonantin Urdu. ItsAbjadvalue is considered to be 200. In Urdu, this letter may also be calledrā-ye-musaqqalā( "heavy re" )[1]orrā-ye-hindiyā( "Indian re" ). InDevanagari,this consonant is rendered using ‘ड़’ (‘’ withnuqtabelow).

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Naskhglyph form:
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ڑ ـڑ ـڑ ڑ
Nastaʿlīqglyph form: ڑ ــــڑ ــــڑ ڑ

Character encoding

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Character information
Preview ڑ
Unicode name ARABIC LETTER RREH
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 1681 U+0691
UTF-8 218 145 DA 91
Numeric character reference ڑ ڑ

References

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  1. ^abShakespear, John (1818).A Grammar of the Hindustani Language.author.Retrieved25 February2020.A Grammar of the Hindustani Language 1818.