U+0891 "" Arabic Piastre Mark Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0891 "" Arabic Piastre Mark Above is a rare typographic mark used historically in Arabic script contexts, specifically as a currency symbol placed above a numeral to denote the piastre, a former unit of currency in parts of the Ottoman Empire and other regions. Unlike the more common Arabic Piastre Mark that appears below characters, this variant is positioned above the digit, serving as a diacritic-style indicator. It was encoded as part of Unicode’s effort to preserve historic and specialized symbols, making it relevant for scholars and archivists working with Ottoman-era financial documents or manuscripts that employ this specific notation. Its usage today is largely confined to academic or digital reproduction of historic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0891 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Piastre 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 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0891 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000891 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0891 |