U+0890 "" Arabic Pound Mark Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0890 "" Arabic Pound Mark Above is a specialized diacritic mark used in certain historical or regional Arabic script contexts to denote a pound weight or currency unit, typically placed above a base Arabic letter to modify its meaning or indicate a specific monetary value, though its modern usage is extremely rare and primarily of interest to scholars of historical Arabic orthography and numismatics rather than contemporary digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0890 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Pound Mark Above |
| Block | Arabic Extended-B |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Number |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0890 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000890 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0890 |