U+089F "࢟" Arabic Half Madda over Madda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+089F "࢟" Arabic Half Madda over Madda is a rarely used diacritical mark designed for historical and orthographic precision in Arabic script, specifically representing a shortened or half-length madda vowel sign superimposed over a full madda. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Arabic Extended-B block to support scholarly transcription and the accurate rendering of certain Quranic and classical texts where a combined notation of a half madda over a full madda is required. Unlike more common Arabic diacritics, it does not serve a function in modern standard Arabic but is essential for documenting subtle phonetic distinctions in ancient manuscripts and linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+089F |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Half Madda over 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 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x089F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000089F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u089f |