U+08B8 "ࢸ" Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࢸ
U+08B8 "ࢸ" Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above is a supplementary Arabic letter used primarily in some West African languages, such as Hausa, to represent a specific sound that is distinct from the standard Arabic "teh" (ت). This character is formed by placing a small version of the letter "teh" (ت) above the base letter "teh" (ت) itself, indicating a palatalized or modified pronunciation. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and was added to the Unicode standard to support the accurate orthographic representation of languages that require this unique diacritic mark, ensuring proper digital text rendering and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08B8 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08b8 |