Dhāl
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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 |
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Unicode name | ARABIC LETTER THAL |
HTML | & # 1584; |
ISO 8859-6 | 0xd0 |