Ṛe, also Aṛ, is a letter of the extended Arabic alphabet, based on rāʾ (ر) with the addition of a diacritical ṭāʾ (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-final retroflex flap [ɽ] in Urdu, Punjabi written in the Shahmukhi script, and Kashmiri. The small t̤oʾe diacritic is used to indicate a retroflex consonant in Urdu. Its Abjad value is considered to be 200. In Urdu, this letter may also be called rā-ye-musaqqalā ("heavy re")[1] or rā-ye-hindiyā ("Indian re"). In Devanagari, this consonant is rendered using ‘ड़’ (‘ड’ with nuqta below).

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Naskh glyph form:
(Help)		 ڑ‎ ـڑ‎ ـڑ‎ ڑ‎
Nastaʿlīq glyph form: ڑ ــــڑ ــــڑ ڑ

Character encoding

Character information
Previewڑ
Unicode name ARABIC LETTER RREH
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode1681U+0691
UTF-8218 145DA 91
Numeric character referenceڑڑ

References

  1. 1 2 Shakespear, John (1818). A Grammar of the Hindustani Language. author. Retrieved 25 February 2020. A Grammar of the Hindustani Language 1818.


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