U+08B6 "ࢶ" Arabic Letter Beh with Small Meem Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࢶ
U+08B6 "ࢶ" Arabic Letter Beh with Small Meem Above is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in certain African languages, such as Ajami scripts, to represent a consonant sound that combines a 'b' sound with a small diacritic 'meem' above to indicate a prenasalized or bilabial nasalized variant, often resembling a 'mb' pronunciation; it was added to the Unicode Standard in its Extended Arabic-A block to support accurate transcription and digital preservation of these languages without relying on complex diacritic stacking.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08B6 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Beh with Small Meem Above |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08b6 |