U+08B3 "ࢳ" Arabic Letter Ain with Three Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08B3 "ࢳ" Arabic Letter Ain with Three Dots Below is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily for writing certain African languages, such as the Fulani and Hausa languages, where it represents a voiced velar or uvular sound distinct from the standard Arabic letter "Ain". Its design combines the basic shape of the Arabic letter "Ain" with three dots placed below the character to indicate this unique phonetic value, enabling accurate transcription of non-Arabic phonemes in extended Arabic-based orthographies. This character falls within the Unicode block for Arabic Extended-A, which was added to support additional letters needed for minority languages across the Islamic world.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08B3 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Ain with Three Dots Below |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08b3 |