'''''' () is the fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . Its numerical value is 800 (see Abjad numerals). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪓, South Arabian .
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- Semitic letter.previousletter
- Ḏāl
- Semitic letter.previouslink
- Ḏāl
- Semitic letter.nextletter
- Ẓāʾ
- Semitic letter.nextlink
- Ẓāʾ
- Semitic letter.letname
- Ḍād
- Semitic letter.archar
- ﺽ
- Semitic letter.gechar
- ፀ
- Semitic letter.ipa
- ˤ , (ˤ), ˤ
- Semitic letter.num
- 26
- Semitic letter.gem
- 800
- Grapheme.name
- Ḍād ضاد
- Grapheme.letter
- ﺽ
- Grapheme.script
- Arabic script
- Grapheme.type
- Abjad
- Grapheme.language
- Arabic language
- Grapheme.phonemes
- ˤ (standard) ˤ (dialectal) ˤ (classical)
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 15
- Grapheme.direction
- Right-to-left
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'''' () is the fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . Its numerical value is 800 (see Abjad numerals). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪓, South Arabian .
The letter symbol itself is a derivation, by addition of a diacritic dot, from ص ṣād'' (representing /sˤ/).