U+088F "" Arabic Letter Noon with Ring Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+088F "" Arabic Letter Noon with Ring Above is a relatively rare and specialized Arabic script character, primarily used in the historical orthography of the African language Hausa, particularly in certain Qur'anic and Ajami manuscripts, where it represents a specific nasalized or emphatic consonant sound distinct from the standard Arabic noon. This character features the base form of the Arabic letter noon (ن) with a small ring or circle diacritic positioned above it, which modifies its phonetic value, and it falls within the Arabic Extended-B block of the Unicode standard, which was designed to encode additional letters for various African and historical languages written in the Arabic script. Despite its niche usage, the character is essential for accurately preserving the phonetic distinctions and written records of those linguistic traditions.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
࢏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
࢏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE0 0xA2 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x088F |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000088F |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u088f |
Unicode Properties