ݨ

ݨ, (Arabic letter noon with small tah (U+0768), ṇūṇ), is an additional letter of the Arabic script,^[1] not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Shahmukhi Punjabi, and Shina to represent a retroflex nasal consonant, [ɳ].

ڼ is the twenty-ninth letter of Pashto alphabet. It represents the retroflex nasal letter (IPA: [ɳ]) or Ṇ in Latin Alphabets, which is ण in Devanagari and ਣ in Gurmukhi.^[2] In Sindhi, ڻ is used.

Arnoon in Mehr Nastaliq Saraiki font.

The Unicode for the letter ݨ was approved in 2005.^[3] Shahmukhi uses the letter ⟨ݨ⟩ for /ɳ/. Previously, ڑن was used to represent a voiced retroflex nasal.

It is a compound of nūn and ṛe ⟨ڑ⟩, for example:

کݨ مݨ، چھݨ چھݨ، ونڄݨ۔

Forms

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ݨ‎	ـݨ‎	ـݨـ‎	ݨـ‎

Nastaliq

The only Nastaliq font that supports the alphabet is "Mehr Nastaliq Saraiki".^[4]

See also

• ٹ
• ڈ
• ڑ
• ں
• ٻ
• ڄ
• ݙ
• ڳ