U+08C3 "ࣃ" Arabic Letter Ghain with Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08C3 "ࣃ" Arabic Letter Ghain with Three Dots Above is a combining mark used in extended Arabic script, specifically designed to represent a variant of the Arabic letter ghain (غ) with three dots positioned above it. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is utilized in certain Arabic-based orthographies for languages such as Sindhi, where it denotes a distinct phonetic value, often a voiced velar or uvular fricative, differing from the standard ghain. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and rendering of these specialized writing systems, preserving linguistic accuracy in texts and communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08C3 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Ghain with Three Dots Above |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࣃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࣃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA3 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08c3 |