U+08BA "ࢺ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Two Dots Below and Small Noon Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+08BA "ࢺ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Two Dots Below and Small Noon Above is a specialized Arabic script character used in certain extended Arabic orthographies, particularly for languages like Wolof, Fulfulde, and other West African languages that require precise phonetic representation beyond standard Arabic. This letter combines the basic Arabic "Yeh" form with two dots placed below it to indicate a distinctive consonant sound, while the small "Noon" diacritic written above signals a unique phonological feature such as prenasalization or a specific consonant alteration. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block of Unicode and serves as a vital tool for accurate transliteration and digital writing in these linguistic communities, enabling faithful rendering of local sounds that lack equivalents in classical Arabic script.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ࢺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ࢺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE0 0xA2 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x08BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000008BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u08ba |
Unicode Properties