U+089B "࢛" Arabic Small Low Word Tasheel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࢛
U+089B "࢛" Arabic Small Low Word Tasheel is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script to indicate orthographic simplification, specifically representing the concept of "tasheel" or facilitation in Quranic or classical text recitation. It appears as a small, low-positioned symbol beneath a base letter, signaling that a particular reading or pronunciation should be eased or truncated, often to avoid a full vowel sound or to guide a simplified articulation without altering the fundamental meaning of the word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+089B |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small Low Word Tasheel |
| 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x089B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000089B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u089b |