U+0876 "ࡶ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Round Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0876 "ࡶ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Round Dot Above is a rarely used Arabic script letter included in the Unicode standard's Extended Arabic-A block. It represents a variant form of the Arabic letter alef combined with a diacritical mark consisting of a round dot attached directly above the character, rather than placed separately. This glyph is historically employed in certain Arabic-based orthographies, such as in early Quranic manuscripts or specific transliteration systems, where it indicates a particular phonetic nuance or a distinct vowel quality not captured by standard alef. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately preserve and display these specialized textual traditions for academic, religious, or linguistic purposes.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ࡶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ࡶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE0 0xA1 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0876 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000876 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0876 |
Unicode Properties