U+08B2 "ࢲ" Arabic Letter Zain with Inverted V Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08B2 "ࢲ" Arabic Letter Zain with Inverted V Above is a specialized typographic variant of the Arabic letter Zain, distinguished by a small inverted V-shaped diacritical mark placed above the base character. This glyph is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is used primarily in certain Quranic orthographies or textual traditions where precise phonetic or recitational guidance is required, particularly to denote a specific pronunciation or a subtle vocalic modification of the letter Zain. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital texts can accurately represent this nuanced letterform, which may appear in religious manuscripts, educational materials, or scholarly transcriptions of early Arabic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08B2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Zain with Inverted V Above |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08B2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008B2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08b2 |