Ṭe

Ṭe is a letter of the extended Arabic alphabet, derived from te (ت) by replacing the dots with a small t̤oʾe (ط; historically four dots in a square pattern, e.g. ٿ^[a]).^[1] It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent an voiceless retroflex plosive [ʈ] in Urdu, Punjabi written in the Shahmukhi script, and Kashmiri as well as Balochi. The small t̤oʾe diacritic is used to indicate a retroflex consonant in Urdu. It is the fifth letter of the Urdu alphabet. Its Abjad value is considered to be 400. In Urdu, this letter may also be called tā-ye-musaqqalā ("heavy te")^[1] or tā-ye-hindiyā ("Indian te"). In Devanagari, this consonant is rendered using ‘ट’.

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Naskh glyph form: (Help)	ٹ‎	ـٹ‎	ـٹـ‎	ٹـ‎
Nastaʿlīq glyph form:	ٹ	ــــٹ	ــــٹــــ	ٹــــ

Character encoding

Character information
Preview	ٹ
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER TTEH
Encodings	decimal	hex
Unicode	1657	U+0679
UTF-8	217 185	D9 B9
Numeric character reference	ٹ	ٹ

Some layout engines do not properly generate the medial and initial forms (which should look like ـٹـ and ﭨ) and will render the isolate form ٹ, without joining.

Notes

^ The same glyph is used in modern Sindhi to represent [t̪ʰ].

References

^ ^a ^b Shakespear, John (1818). A Grammar of the Hindustani Language. author. Retrieved 25 February 2020. A Grammar of the Hindustani Language 1818.

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[1] The same glyph is used in modern Sindhi to represent [t̪ʰ].

[Shakespeare-2] Shakespear, John (1818). A Grammar of the Hindustani Language. author. Retrieved 25 February 2020. A Grammar of the Hindustani Language 1818.

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