Phe (letter)
Phe ( Sindhi :ڦي phē ;ڦ) is the 36th letter of the Sindhi extended Arabic alphabet . Phe consists of a Fa (ف) with three additional points above.
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ـڦ
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ـڦـ
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ڦـ
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ڦ
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final | medial | initial | isolated |
In the Arabic script of Sindhi, Phe stands for the aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive [ pʰ ]. The equivalent of Phe in the Sindhi Devanagari is the symbol फ, in Latin transcriptions Phe is usually represented with ph .
The character is coded in the Arabic Unicode block as Peheh at the code point U + 06A6 and in the Arabic presentation-A Unicode block at the code points U + FB6E to U + FB71. In a historical variant, the Phe had only three diacritical points (with two adjacent dots above the Fa).
Unicode - Codepoint | Unicode name | character |
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U + 06A6 | ARABIC LETTER PEHEH | ڦ |
U + FB6E | ARABIC LETTER PEHEH ISOLATED FORM | ﭮ |
U + FB6F | ARABIC LETTER PEHEH FINAL FORM | ﭯ |
U + FB70 | ARABIC LETTER PEHEH INITIAL FORM | ﭰ |
U + FB71 | ARABIC LETTER PEHEH MEDIAL FORM | ﭱ |
literature
- Ernest Trumpp : Grammar of the Sindhi Language . Asian Educational Services, 1986, ISBN 81-206-0100-9 .
Web links
- The Sindhi Alphabet , unics.uni-hannover.de
- Transliteration of Sindhi (PDF; 327 kB), transliteration.eki.ee