U+0889 "ࢉ" Arabic Letter Noon with Inverted Small V Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0889 "ࢉ" Arabic Letter Noon with Inverted Small V is an extension to the Arabic script, designed to represent a specific phonetic sound found in some languages that utilize the Arabic alphabet, particularly in African languages such as Fulfulde (Fula). Its glyph combines the base shape of the Arabic letter noon with an inverted small V-shaped diacritic above it, indicating a separate consonantal value distinct from standard noon. This character falls within the Arabic Extended-B block, which was added to support additional letters for languages with non-standard Arabic orthographies. It allows for more precise transcription of regional pronunciations, where the inverted small V often denotes a voiced or implosive variant of the sound typically associated with noon.

General Properties

Code Point U+0889
Version Added 14.0
Name Arabic Letter Noon with Inverted Small V
Block Arabic Extended-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ࢉ
HTML Hex Encoding ࢉ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA2 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0889
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000889
C/C++/Java Escape \u0889

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 Dual Joining
Joining Group Noon
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