U+08A7 "ࢧ" Arabic Letter Meem with Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08A7 "ࢧ" Arabic Letter Meem with Three Dots Above is a specialized variant of the Arabic letter Meem used in certain extended Arabic script orthographies, particularly in some West African languages such as Hausa and Fulani, where it represents a distinct phonetic value like the voiced labial-velar approximant or a prenasalized bilabial stop. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is formed by adding three dots above the standard Meem, a diacritical modification that differentiates it from the basic letter. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text processing can accurately represent the unique sounds of these African languages, supporting proper writing and reading in their cultural and linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08A7 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Meem with Three Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08a7 |