Ṭe is a letter of the extended Arabic alphabet, derived from te (ت) by replacing the dots with a small t̤oʾe (ط; historically four dots in a square pattern, e.g. ٿ[lower-alpha 1]).[1] It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent an voiceless retroflex plosive [ʈ] in Urdu, Punjabi written in the Shahmukhi script, and Kashmiri as well as Balochi. The small t̤oʾe diacritic is used to indicate a retroflex consonant in Urdu. It is the fifth letter of the Urdu alphabet. Its Abjad value is considered to be 400. In Urdu, this letter may also be called tā-ye-musaqqalā ("heavy te")[1] or tā-ye-hindiyā ("Indian te"). In Devanagari, this consonant is rendered using ‘ट’.

Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Naskh glyph form:
(Help)		 ٹ‎ ـٹ‎ ـٹـ‎ ٹـ‎
Nastaʿlīq glyph form: ٹ ــــٹ ــــٹــــ ٹــــ

Character encoding

Character information
Previewٹ
Unicode name ARABIC LETTER TTEH
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode1657U+0679
UTF-8217 185D9 B9
Numeric character referenceٹٹ

Some layout engines do not properly generate the medial and initial forms (which should look like ـٹـ and ﭨ) and will render the isolate form ٹ, without joining.

Notes

  1. ↑ The same glyph is used in modern Sindhi to represent [t̪ʰ].

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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