U+0898 "࢘" Arabic Small High Word Al-Juz Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0898 "࢘" Arabic Small High Word Al-Juz is a specialized diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, primarily for the notation of the Quran or classical manuscripts. Its specific function is to indicate the beginning of a "juz", which is one of the thirty equal parts into which the Quran is divided for recitation and memorization. This small, high-positioned character is written above the text, serving as a clear and compact visual marker. It was added to the Unicode Standard to support precise text encoding for religious and scholarly works, ensuring that historic Quranic layout and reading traditions can be accurately represented in digital formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0898 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Word Al-Juz |
| Block | Arabic Extended-B |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0898 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000898 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0898 |