U+06E8 "ۨ" Arabic Small High Noon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06E8 "ۨ" Arabic Small High Noon is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script as a phonetic sign, primarily in certain Qur'anic or pedagogical contexts to indicate a specific nasalization or articulation of the consonant noon. It appears as a small, superscript version of the Arabic letter noon (ن) and is placed above other base characters to modify their pronunciation, often representing a subtle sound nuance in recitation or linguistic transcription. This character is distinct from its standard-sized counterpart and belongs to the Arabic block of Unicode, serving as a specialized tool for accurate rendering of classical Arabic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Noon |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06e8 |