U+08A9 "ࢩ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Two Dots Below and Dot Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+08A9 "ࢩ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Two Dots Below and Dot Above is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in certain orthographies for African languages, such as Fulfulde, to represent a voiced palatal approximant or a specific consonant sound distinct from the standard Arabic Yeh. The diacritical marks, with two dots below the base letter and a single dot above, modify the basic Yeh to indicate a phonetic nuance essential for accurately transcribing languages that require more precise graphemes than those available in traditional Arabic script. This character falls within the Extended Arabic-A block and enables clearer linguistic representation, particularly in texts where distinguishing between similar sounds is critical for comprehension and proper pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+08A9
Version Added 6.1
Name Arabic Letter Yeh with Two Dots Below and Dot Above
Block Arabic Extended-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ࢩ
HTML Hex Encoding ࢩ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA2 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x08A9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000008A9
C/C++/Java Escape \u08a9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Joining Group Yeh
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter