ݙ is an additional letter of the Arabic script, not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Saraiki to represent a voiced alveolar implosive, . Its other form is also found in Saraiki as spoken in Multan in the form of voiced retroflex implosive, .
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ݙ is an additional letter of the Arabic script, not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Saraiki to represent a voiced alveolar implosive, . Its other form is also found in Saraiki as spoken in Multan in the form of voiced retroflex implosive, .
It is written as ॾ in Saraiki and Sindhi's Devanagari orthography. It is derived from the letter ḍāl (ڈ), which is used to represent the , and two dots below to represent implosion (as in Sindhi). The Unicode character for ݙ was approved in 2005.
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