U+089E "࢞" Arabic Doubled Madda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࢞
U+089E "࢞" Arabic Doubled Madda is a specialized diacritical mark used in Arabic script to indicate a prolonged or doubled glottal stop, functioning as a variant or intensification of the standard madda sign. It appears above the Arabic letter alef to denote the extended pronunciation of the hamza sound in specific orthographic contexts, particularly in Quranic or classical texts where precise vocalization is required. While not common in modern standard Arabic, this character ensures accurate rendering of certain recitation styles by signaling a distinctly longer madda vowel.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+089E |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Doubled Madda |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x089E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000089E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u089e |