U+0879 "ࡹ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Round Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0879 "ࡹ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Round Dot Below is a unique glyph belonging to the Arabic Extended-B block, used primarily for the representation of a specific phoneme in certain African languages, such as the Fulfulde language, where it denotes a glottal stop or a voiced epiglottal approximant distinct from the standard Arabic letter alef. This character combines the basic Arabic alef shape with a diacritical round dot attached beneath it, serving as an orthographic marker to differentiate sounds in adapted Arabic scripts for these languages. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates accurate digital encoding and text processing for linguistic communities that require this specialized variant for proper writing and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0879 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Round Dot Below |
| Block | Arabic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0879 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000879 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0879 |