Be (letter)

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Forms of Be
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final medial initial isolated

The Be (ٻ; in Sindhiٻي b̤ē ; in punjabiٻے bbe ) is an Arabic character that is used in several extended Arabic alphabets . The shape of the Be is from the Ba (ب), the Be received an additional diacritical point below the point of the Ba.

The Be comes in the alphabet of the Arabic language not present itself, its phonetic value corresponds to the voiced bilabial implosive [⁠ Ɓ ⁠] that does not know the Arabic language. The Be is part of the Arabic alphabet of Saraiki , Sindhi and Hausa and is occasionally used in the Arabic alphabet ( Shahmukhi ) of Punjabi . In Hausa, a Ba is sometimes used instead of the Be.

There are other scripts for all of these languages. The Be corresponds to the ɓ in the Latin alphabet of Hausa, the ॿ in the Devanagari of Sindhi and a ਬ in the Panjabic Gurmukhi . In Latin transcriptions, the Be des Sindhi is transliterated as or bb .

Be is coded in a total of five positions in the Arabic unicode block and Arabic presentation forms-A unicode block :

Unicode - Codepoint Unicode name character
U + 067B ARABIC LETTER BEEH ٻ
U + FB52 ARABIC LETTER BEEH ISOLATED FORM
U + FB53 ARABIC LETTER BEEH FINAL FORM
U + FB54 ARABIC LETTER BEEH INITIAL FORM
U + FB55 ARABIC LETTER BEEH MEDIAL FORM

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