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
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