Ṭe is a letter of the extended

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, derived from te () by replacing the dots with a small t̤oʾe (; historically four dots in a square pattern, e.g. ). It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent an voiceless retroflex plosive �in

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

, Punjabi written in the

Shahmukhi Shahmukhi (, , , ) is the right-to-left abjad-based script developed from the Perso-Arabic alphabet used for the Punjabi language varieties, predominantly in Punjab, Pakistan. It is generally written in the Nastaʿlīq calligraphic hand, whic ...

script, and Kashmiri as well as Balochi. The small t̤oʾe diacritic is used to indicate a

retroflex consonant A retroflex () or cacuminal () consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate. They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consona ...

in Urdu. It is the fifth letter of the

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. Its

Abjad An abjad ( or abgad) is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving the vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader. This contrasts with alphabets, which provide graphemes for both consonants and vowels. The term was introd ...

value is considered to be 400. In Urdu, this letter may also be called ''tā-ye-musaqqalā'' ("heavy te") or ''tā-ye-hindiyā'' ("Indian te"). In

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, this consonant is rendered using ‘ ट’.

Character encoding

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

Notes

References

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