U+0603 "" Arabic Sign Safha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0603 "" Arabic Sign Safha is a rarely used punctuation mark within the Arabic script, specifically classified as an Arabic sign that historically indicated the “page” number or a page break in certain traditional manuscripts. Unlike standard punctuation, this character functioned as a typographic abbreviation, similar to a section or paragraph mark, to organize and reference content in older Arabic texts. It is not commonly employed in modern digital typography but remains part of the Unicode standard for preserving historical and scholarly documentation of the Arabic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0603 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Arabic Sign Safha |
| 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0603 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000603 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0603 |