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{{Arabic-script sidebar|Urdu}}{{Arabic-script sidebar|Punjabi}}{{Arabic-script sidebar|Saraiki}}{{Arabic-script sidebar|Pashto}}{{Arabic-script sidebar|Kashmiri}}{{Arabic-script sidebar|Khowar}}'''Nūn ǧuṇnā''', ({{lang-ur|{{nq|نُون غُنَّه}}}}; [[Unicode]]: {{unichar|06BA|ARABIC LETTER NOON GHUNNA}}) is an additional letter of the [[Arabic script]] not used in the [[Arabic alphabet]] itself but used in [[Urdu]], [[Saraiki language|Saraiki]], and [[Shahmukhi alphabet|Shahmukhi]] [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.al-dirassa.com/the-ghunna-with-the-letters-noon-and-meen/|title=The Ghunna with the letters Noon and Meen|date=March 15, 2021}}</ref> to represent a [[nasal vowel]], {{IPAblink|◌̃}}. In Shahmukhi, it is represented by the [[diacritic]] {{char|٘◌}}.

It is a nasal [[vowel]] used in many [[Indo-Aryan languages]] and [[Iranian languages]]. It is represented by the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] by the sound of {{angbr IPA|◌̃}}. It is a dotless [[nun (letter)#Arabic nūn|noon]]. In Saraiki and [[Balti language|Balti]], nūn ǧunna is sometimes written as ن٘.

The following languages use nūn ǧuṇnā: