Dhāl

This article covers the letter ﺫfrom the standard Arabic alphabet. The Arabic lettersڌ and ڍfrom the Sindhi alphabet are also referred to as Dhal or Ḍhal .

Dhal in isolated form

connected shape
from the right:	ـﺫ

Dhāl ( Arabic ﺫال, DMG Ḏāl ) is the ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet . The numerical value 700 is assigned to it.

Emergence

Unlike most other Arabic letters, the Dhal did not emerge directly from a Phoenician letter. In the early days of the Arabic language, the diacritical points were still missing, Dhal was written exactly like the Dal . A point was later added to the dhal to distinguish the two letters.

Sound value and transcription

The Dhal corresponds to the voiced English "th" sound in this or that . In the DMG inscription, Dhal is shown as an underlined "d" (ḏ). In non-scientific transliteration, “dh” is mostly used. In the IPA phonetic spelling it corresponds to the [ð] .

The Dhal is a sun letter , i.e. i.e., a preceding al- (definite article) is assimilated.

Dhal in Unicode

Unicode codepoint	U + 0630
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER THAL
HTML	& # 1584;
ISO 8859-6	0xd0