Dāl
connected shape |
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ـد |
from the right |
Dāl (دال) is the eighth letter of the Arabic alphabet . It emerged from the Phoenician Daleth and is thus related to the Latin D , the Greek Delta and the Hebrew Daleth . The numerical value 4 is assigned to it.
Sound value and transcription
The Dal corresponds to the German D in "Dora". It is therefore reproduced with a “d” in the DMG inscription.
The Dal is a sun letter , i. i.e., a preceding al- (definite article) is assimilated.
Dal in Unicode
Unicode codepoint | U + 062F |
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Unicode name | ARABIC LETTER DAL |
HTML | & # 1583; |
ISO 8859-6 | 0xcf |