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
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