U+089C "࢜" Arabic Madda Waajib Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࢜
U+089C "࢜" Arabic Madda Waajib is a diacritic mark used in Arabic script to indicate a required or obligatory prolongation of a vowel sound, specifically a madda that must be lengthened as a rule of recitation, often in Quranic or religious contexts. It appears as a small zigzag or tilde-like sign positioned above a letter, distinct from the more common madda sign, and its inclusion in Unicode supports precise textual representation for scholars and linguists working with classical Arabic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+089C |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Madda Waajib |
| 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x089C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000089C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u089c |