U+0601 "" Arabic Sign Sanah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0601 "" Arabic Sign Sanah is a historical typographic symbol used in Arabic script to indicate the end of a year, functioning similarly to a year mark or space filler in calendrical and astronomical texts. It appears as a small, stylized glyph resembling a floral or ornamental node, and it is classified as a subtle, non-spacing diacritic within the Arabic block of the Unicode standard. This character was primarily employed in medieval manuscripts to separate years in chronological records or to denote a completed annual cycle, reflecting the cultural need for clear, visual boundaries in written timekeeping.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0601 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Arabic Sign Sanah |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Number |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0601 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000601 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0601 |