U+08A3 "ࢣ" Arabic Letter Tah with Two Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࢣ
U+08A3 "ࢣ" Arabic Letter Tah with Two Dots Above is an extended Arabic letter used for writing certain African languages, including the Fulani (Fulfulde) and Hausa languages in the Arabic script variant known as Ajami. It represents a voiced alveolar implosive sound (often transcribed as /ɗ/), which is distinct from the standard Arabic letter Tah (ط) by the addition of two dots above the character. This glyph is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and was specifically encoded to support the phonetic needs of languages where the standard Arabic alphabet lacks a dedicated character for this consonant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08A3 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Tah 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 | ࢣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08a3 |