U+0899 "࢙" Arabic Small Low Word Ishmaam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࢙
U+0899 "࢙" Arabic Small Low Word Ishmaam is a diacritical mark used in specialized Quranic and classical Arabic orthography to indicate a phonetic phenomenon known as ishmaam, where a slight, inaudible rounding of the lips occurs during the pronunciation of a vowelless consonant, often to hint at a preserved or residual vowel sound. This mark appears as a small, low-placed symbol beneath an Arabic letter, distinct from the more common shadda or sukun, and serves to guide proper recitation in contexts where a word's historical or morphological vowel is suppressed rather than fully elided. In modern standard text, it is rarely used, making it a niche addition to the Unicode standard for preserving ancient textual accuracy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0899 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small Low Word Ishmaam |
| Block | Arabic Extended-B |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0899 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000899 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0899 |