U+08C8 "ࣈ" Arabic Letter Graf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣈ
U+08C8 "ࣈ" Arabic Letter Graf is a relatively rare and specialized character used in the extended Arabic script, specifically for the writing of certain African languages such as Fulfulde, Hausa, and Wolof in the Ajami tradition. It represents a distinct consonant sound, often a voiced velar or uvular fricative or a similar phoneme not covered by the standard Arabic alphabet, and is formed by adding a diacritical dot or mark to a base Arabic letter. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block, codified to support the diverse phonetic needs of languages that have adopted the Arabic script beyond its classical Middle Eastern context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08C8 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Graf |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࣈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࣈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA3 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08c8 |