ض

Also known as ARABIC LETTER DAD, dad, ḍād

'''''' () 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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HTML entity: ض
Commons category: ض
Unicode character: ض
Unicode code point: 0636
Unicode character name: ARABIC LETTER DAD

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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/).