U+08A2 "ࢢ" Arabic Letter Jeem with Two Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08A2 "ࢢ" Arabic Letter Jeem with Two Dots Above is a modified Arabic letter used in certain African languages, most notably in the Ajami script for writing languages like Hausa and Fulfulde, where it represents a voiced palatal plosive or affricate sound, specifically the /dʒ/ or /ɟ/ phoneme, distinct from the standard Arabic letter Jeem (ج). Its encoding in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of these non-Arabic orthographies that rely on Arabic script adaptations. The character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is typically displayed with two dots positioned above the base Jeem form, differentiating it from other dotted variants in the same script family.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08A2 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Jeem with Two Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08a2 |