U+088A "ࢊ" Arabic Letter Hah with Inverted Small V Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+088A "ࢊ" Arabic Letter Hah with Inverted Small V Below is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in certain African languages, such as Fulfulde and some Berber orthographies, to represent a voiceless pharyngeal or uvular sound that is distinct from the standard Arabic letter ḥā’. Its form combines a baseline letter resembling the Arabic Hah (ح) with an inverted small "v" diacritic placed beneath it, which modifies the base letter’s phonetic value. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Arabic Extended-B block to facilitate precise representation of non-Arabic sounds in languages that have adapted the Arabic script. Its inclusion supports accurate digital text rendering and linguistic documentation for communities that rely on this orthographic distinction.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ࢊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ࢊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE0 0xA2 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x088A |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000088A |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u088a |
Unicode Properties