“ਜ਼” U+0A5B: Gurmukhi Letter Za

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The Gurmukhi Letter Za (ਜ਼) is a specialized typographic glyph within the Gurmukhi script ecosystem, configured specifically to accommodate the accurate orthographic mapping of the voiced postalveolar fricative or voiced alveolar sibilant sounds. Crucial for handling loanwords from Persian, Urdu, and Arabic source registers in Punjabi computing, this character decomposes canonically into a pair consisting of the base Gurmukhi Letter Ja (ਜ U+0A1C) combined structurally with the subjoined diacritic modifier Sign Nukta (਼ U+0A3C).

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