U+08AA "ࢪ" Arabic Letter Reh with Loop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08AA "ࢪ" Arabic Letter Reh with Loop is a letter used in the extended Arabic script, primarily appearing in certain African languages such as Fulfulde, Hausa, and Wolof, where it represents a specific consonant sound. Its glyph is based on the Arabic letter Reh (ر) but features an added loop on the descender, a diacritic-like modification that distinguishes it in orthography. This character was encoded in Unicode version 6.1 as part of the Arabic Extended-A block to support the accurate digital representation of these languages' written forms, ensuring proper rendering and processing in modern text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08AA |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Reh with Loop |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08aa |