U+08B9 "ࢹ" Arabic Letter Reh with Small Noon Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+08B9 "ࢹ" Arabic Letter Reh with Small Noon Above is a specialized grapheme within the Arabic script block, designed to represent a specific phonetic variant or dialectal sound. This character consists of the standard Arabic letter "reh" (ر) with a small noon glyph placed above it, indicating a nasalized pronunciation or a distinct consonantal value often found in African languages such as Hausa or certain Central Asian dialects that extend the Arabic alphabet. Its encoding in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately reproduce this rare letter for linguistic documentation, religious texts, or cultural communication, preserving the orthographic precision needed for languages where such diacritical combinations carry semantic importance.

General Properties

Code Point U+08B9
Version Added 9.0
Name Arabic Letter Reh with Small Noon Above
Block Arabic Extended-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ࢹ
HTML Hex Encoding ࢹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA2 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x08B9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000008B9
C/C++/Java Escape \u08b9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Right Joining
Joining Group Reh
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter