U+0773 "ݳ" Arabic Letter Alef with Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Two Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+0773 "ݳ" Arabic Letter Alef with Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Two Above is a specialized glyph used in extended Arabic script orthographies, particularly for languages such as Fulfulde, Hausa, or Wolof, where it represents a vowel sound or a phonetic distinction that is not covered by the standard Arabic alphabet. This character combines the base letter alef with a diacritical mark resembling the Eastern Arabic numeral two (like ٢) placed above it, which serves as a vowel indicator rather than a numeric value. It belongs to the Arabic Supplement block and is encoded for digital text processing to accurately transcribe non-Arabic languages that use a modified Perso-Arabic script, ensuring proper representation of sounds in these linguistic systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+0773
Version Added 5.1
Name Arabic Letter Alef with Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Two Above
Block Arabic Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ݳ
HTML Hex Encoding ݳ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xDD 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0773
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000773
C/C++/Java Escape \u0773

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Right Joining
Joining Group Alef
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter