U+0888 "࢈" Arabic Raised Round Dot Unicode Character

U+0888 "࢈" Arabic Raised Round Dot is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically within certain extended Arabic orthographies for languages such as African ones like Hausa or Fulfulde, where it functions as a modifier attached to base letters to indicate a distinct phonetic value, often representing a retroflex or implosive consonant sound. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Arabic Extended-B block to support specialized linguistic transcriptions and regional writing systems that require a raised dot above or below a letter to denote a unique pronunciation not covered by standard Arabic diacritics.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0888
Version Added	14.0
Name	Arabic Raised Round Dot
Block	Arabic Extended-B
General Category	Modifier Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	࢈
HTML Hex Encoding	࢈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE0 0xA2 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0888
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000888
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0888

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other