U+0877 "ࡷ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Right Round Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࡷ
U+0877 "ࡷ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Right Round Dot is a relatively rare addition to the Arabic script block, specifically included to support the Mandaean language and liturgical alphabet. This character represents a variant of the Arabic letter alef, distinguished by a small round dot attached to the right side of the letter’s vertical stroke. It is used to denote a specific pharyngeal or glottal sound in Mandaean phonology, which differs from the standard Arabic alef. The character falls within the Extended Arabic-A block, serving to accurately transcribe historical and religious texts of the Mandaean community, a Gnostic ethnoreligious group primarily from Iraq and Iran.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0877 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Right Round Dot |
| Block | Arabic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0877 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000877 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0877 |