U+08C5 "ࣅ" Arabic Letter Jeem with Three Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+08C5 "ࣅ" Arabic Letter Jeem with Three Dots Above is a relatively rare extended Arabic letter used primarily to represent specific phonetic sounds in certain African languages, such as Hausa, Fulani, and others, where it denotes a voiced palatal or post-alveolar affricate distinct from the standard Arabic jeem. This character is encoded in the Unicode block for Arabic Extended-A, which was introduced to support a broader range of Arabic-script orthographies beyond those used for classical or standard Arabic. Its visual form consists of the base Arabic letter jeem (ج) with three dots arranged in a triangular pattern above it, serving as a diacritical modification to indicate a different pronunciation. In modern digital typography and text processing, this character ensures proper representation of these languages in electronic documents and communications, though it may not be fully supported by all fonts or software systems.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ࣅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ࣅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE0 0xA3 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x08C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000008C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u08c5 |
Unicode Properties