U+087B "ࡻ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Dot Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+087B "ࡻ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Dot Above is a specialized script character used in the extended Arabic writing system, primarily found in historic or Quranic orthography. It represents the letter alef combined with a fatha diacritic placed at its top right and an additional dot above, serving to indicate a precise vowel and diacritical marking in certain textual contexts, particularly in manuscripts requiring exact phonetic transcription. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-B block and was introduced to support the accurate encoding of rare or variant Arabic letters that appear in liturgical, educational, or scholarly texts, ensuring digital preservation of nuanced pronunciation and script traditions.

General Properties

Code Point U+087B
Version Added 14.0
Name Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Dot Above
Block Arabic Extended-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ࡻ
HTML Hex Encoding ࡻ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA1 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x087B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000087B
C/C++/Java Escape \u087b

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